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  This tax is a bloody disgrace and is typical, not of Labour, but of the UK in general. We develop something great and before long the government are taxing us or making us pay a licence fee for it. A broadband tax/licence will be just like a TV licence (which, incidentally, makes the UK a laughing stock in other countries), or the PRS licence to listen to a pocket radio at work (quite possibly the BIGGEST rip off in the UK). Before now, the internet was in the hands of private enterprise and has done pretty well on it. Frankly, with the cost of broadband connections being what they are, I am not interested in paying a tax to help those with poorer connection speeds. Can I get the government to charge the UK a tax in order to improve everybody's car graphics? Exactly!
  
  Yet again we are being ripped off by the country that seems to do nothing but rip us off at every possible turn. Whoever thought up this idea can get stuffed. PaulB is quite right, every budget will pile on the cash and within a decade we will all be paying over £100 a year for our "right" to buy and use a broadband service.
  
  And they probably won't spend the money developing a better broadband architecture anyway, they'll be wasting it all on moats and prostitutes knowing that bunch of slimy no-good ****s !!!

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