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cs02rm0 on Feb 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: E.U. Agrees to Cross-Border Access to Streaming Se...

Who cares what the membership fee was without considering how that fee is redistributed?

The UK is one of very few net contributors. They haven't leached, quite the opposite.

gonvaled on Feb 9, 2017 [–]

That fee is not money you put in for nothing, you put in for the services you get.

The question is if the UK has paid its fair share, adjusted for population and GDP, for the services it got.

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