Re: [Fwd: WQEW make your move])

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

At 11:19 AM 12/28/98 -0500, Roger Kirk wrote:


>If you view radio strictly as a business and nothing else - then I
>submit that the Government should tax the licenses and allow 
>station owners to pay for the "limited' resources they are using 
>to make money.  After all, shouldn't the Government give me,
>the taxpayer, the best possible financial return on my share of
>the public's collectively-owned resources?

Radio licenses are issued in the public trust...

Remember that?

It's been a long time since it really meant anything.  Radio has become big
business.  I agree that we are essentially giving away licenses to big
business that then reap huge rewards when the sell the station several
years later.  Perhaps the government should be charging more for station
licenses, perhaps an "income tax" on the stations revenues to allow it to
be proportional to the amout that the station reaps from using the public
airwaves.

Brian

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