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Health is a topic much like sound money: it's about self-empowerment. Not about the comfort of letting others dictate what's right or what we should consume. It's about consciously informing ourselves...
> Btw: I'm also not ok with paying compulsory taxes every year for TV and radio 🧐
My legitimation for taxes to pay for quality TV and radio is the following:
1. Our liberties as property rights are enforced by the judicative based on the local laws.
2. Laws are written by representatives. Can be from an authocratic state, representing a certain minority or in a democratic state representing the people.
3. In order for the people to inform themself about how law is enacted and which representatives speak up for which topic, we need some medium, which independently reports about what happens.
4. This is basically the work of the press. And I would say a medium can be eighter independent, since all their money comes from readers directly, or their money comes from the state with the condition to not having anything to say, what they should or should not write.
I see the first independence the superior option. But in small counties, readers might not have the financial power to ensure local press by only the intrested ones. The calculation is easy. Only those who have paying news abonnements can allow such a medium to exist. And in the current reality, not every county has enough paying readers to uphold a local independent news source.
And when the state does then not pay for independent media to fill this, it will be filled by the void (blind voters) or by corporate intrest (voters that only get to see, what is in the intrest of these corporations). Both scenarios take away the oportunity for people to independent information. This already makes democracy less powerful.
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