We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
has exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>On Mar 30, 9:32?am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msdREMOVETHIS.biglobe.ne.jp>
>wrote:
>> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
>> has exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>>
>> >NHK's budget should come out of general tax revenue,
>> >in much the same way as Australia's ABC.
>>
>> I once thought this way, but the way I see it, in its current state NHK doesn't
>> have to worry about the government slashing funding somewhere down the line,
>> like the United States is currently trying to do with PBS. (Someone correct me
>> if I've got it wrong here...) I sort of considered the fees a "TV tax" anyway,
>> and admittedly my family and I watch a whole hell of a lot of NHK.
>
>I guess it is conceivable that sometime/somehow in the future funding
>could be slashed, though unlikely. Not sure whether how much that
>small army of licence fee collectors are paid, but would imagine there
>is some room for economizing. 

Now that they've instituted a bank account withdrawal system to make it more
painless and keep it in the background, I figured they'd reduced the number of
collectors. I've got to think that's been less of a financial burden on them.


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