Call it like you want, in the German Sphere they are explicitly not taxes. The politicians don’t decide over the sum, and also the state doesn’t charge it directly, it’s the broadcasters.

But it’s important that public broadcasting is well funded to provide a good alternative to the private shit media owned by billionaires and not having your interests in mind

Why not make everyone pay? That’s how it’s done in Austria or Germany

It’s much less bureaucracy

But now they have a nice censor infrastructure in Place. Luckily they don’t have some right-wing nutjobs in the Government who could abuse that power in the future

/S