Victoria Barnsley, chief executive of HarperCollins, recently suggested the idea of charging a fee for browsing bookshops is "not that insane".
Many people hate the idea of putting a fee on plastic bags.
He endorsed the idea of imposing a fee, or tax, on health insurance companies for "their most expensive policies".
The country's first public park, the Arboretum in Derby, opened in 1840 and charged for entry five days a week; last year its current manager, Michael McNaught, reluctantly floated the idea of reintroducing a fee for visitors from outside the city.
Ms. Cravens said hotels had been slow to respond to the idea of a tiered fee system.
While the idea of a user fee for our highways has its appeal, it fails to capture the full role of transportation in our economy.
Dr Rösler's idea of a flat fee for rich and poor alike is vociferously opposed by the CSU, and the subsidy plan fits ill with the FDP's enthusiasm for tax cuts.
With many in the government highly critical of the very idea of a license fee at a time when the media landscape is splintering, the BBC, the argument goes, is lucky to be able to keep it for six more years, at least.
When I say unsustainable in the long term, I'm talking about over 20, 50 years … I don't like the idea of a licence fee, I would prefer to link it perhaps to some other tax, and I think decriminalisation is almost certain to happen.
