I'm in Billag battle right now and find it preposterous.

It's outrageously expensive and not based on anything other than a revenue stream that someone appears to have "dreamt".

Further, I don't speak and German or Swiss German (yet) so the whopping three channels that would be available to me hold no interest and aren't supported by the tax anyway.

I have an alarm clock, a TV that is plugged to a dvd player for my kids and a car that has radio and a tv tuner. However, I just don't watch tv or listen to the radio and if I could disable the traffic announcements in my car, I would.

I talk to Swiss friends at work, and they hate this more than we do. I really admire the way Swiss infrastructure and government is run except for a few small anomalies such as this. I wish some level headed person would step in and bring some logic to the situation.

27/9/2007 - three months without paying so far. I'll be in cuffs soon enough...