'Regressive tax' of TV licence should be abolished - Barry.
That's according to People Before Profit TD Mick Barry, who was speaking amid debate around the future funding of RTÉ.Advertisement"At the best of times, the television licence fee is a regressive tax - the poor man pays as much as the rich man," he said."I think the State has needed quite an apparatus of coercion in order to squeeze the money out of people."I am a supporter, 100%, of public funding for public service broadcasting...
"To me, the independence of the editorial business of public service broadcasting has to be separate from the decision, wranglings and negotiations between any minister, any department and any public service broadcaster. An RTÉ logo at the station headquarters in Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Picture by: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie"The commercial income, knock that on the head, that it's 100% from public funding," she said.
"I also think you would need to look at the new media, the big tech companies and profits that they make.
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