My local MP had an email poll re. the "50p temporary levy" which resulted in more than 1500 replies, 64.1% saying no they did not agree with it.
An example of the reasons given are :
"public money should not be used to fund private enterprise"
"it wouldn't be a temporary levy, it would continue indefinitely"
"it will take a long time by which technology would have moved on making it obsolete"
An example of my own comments to the poll :-
"Apply a VAT rate to all broadband contracts at a different level to the standard rate, say 20% which would raise more revenue than the proposed 50 pence per month tax"
"A better solution to the whole broadband problem would be to create a nationalised broadband enterprise responsible for installing a dedicated fibre infrastructure, totally independent of the existing telephone landline system thus removing all broadband operational and financial responsibility from BT. The financing for this again could come from the users' subscriptions. Current ISPs would buy capacity from the nationalised enterprise and resell to their customers similar to that which currently exists with BT Wholesale selling its IPStream broadband product to ISPs"
It was the second comment that, surprisingly, interested my MP the most......and he's neither Labour nor Conservative !
