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If the hospital needs to be funded, then the British government should properly fund it, based on a progressive tax code. If the hospital doesn’t need the funding from the royalties, then it’s a meaningless regressive tax that, if anything, harms children to some amount, since they can’t enjoy any works that would have otherwise been freely created but can’t be.

Disney is certainly morally much worse than a children’s hospital, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t criticize the hospital. And I doubt the comments here are hurting the hospital in any way, for that matter.



Basic funding is through the NHS. The charity mainly funds additional advanced R&D, family support etc.


You’re basically just replacing a tax on the returns of a specific play with a tax on income.

At least the tax on the play can’t be spent on something else.




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