TV Tax

Herewith a resounding “Yea” vote for the “Tax Proposed to Fund Public Broadcasting” reported by Judith Michaelson (Dec. 13).

I have just one suggestion. Rather than consumer electronic products and communications equipment, that tax should be levied on the network’s income from advertising, or on the gross outlays by commercial advertisers on TV and radio.

The advertisers and the networks are jointly to blame for the daily and nightly affronts to the public’s patience, taste and sense of decency. They should be made to pay for the possible curative effects offered by public broadcasting, notably our own KCET.

We can then be spared the sight and sound of some of the best in TV having to shake the tin cup at regular intervals to be allowed to shed the small light it is able to muster on the vast wasteland of present-day TV.

FREDERIC E. PAMP

Santa Ynez