/ world today news/ There is no longer any doubt: the power in the person of the rulers wants us to be illiterate and semi-literate…
Already in the 10th century, Constantine Preslavsky wrote the following prophetic words in his famous “Alphabet Prayer”:Naked are the nations without books, powerless to fight without weapons against the adversary of our souls!”
Yes, and we have already been exposed as the poorest and most miserable nation in the EU, so soon we will run out of books. Only with highways and stadiums… With football and chalga! And we were among the most read and educated nations in the world! In our country and in several other countries such as Romania, Cuba and Russia-USSR, the books were the most accessible and at the lowest prices in the whole world. And now even in rich countries like Italy, England, Spain, books are more affordable than in our country. And in our northern neighbor they are three times cheaper! Why did it turn out that way? Why did books go up in price so drastically and are now a luxury for many. And the libraries and community centers in our country no longer have money for books and even for newspapers and magazines. That’s why millions are still being spent on professional sports.
Yes, paper and printing costs are high. Commercial discounts are also extremely high / not regulated by the state!/ – the booksellers who sell them take – several times more than the writers and translators for their hard creative work – truly absurd, right?! And many of them are so ignorant that they can hardly remember the names of the authors and the titles of the books they sell. Not to mention the chaos in book distribution in our country, which before the changes was exemplary! But there is something else. The fault here lies primarily with the state. And to the deputies from GERB, who decided that books in our country are a luxury and the “killer tax”, as the VAT tax for Bulgarian books is known, remained unchanged! Despite a promise by the Prime Minister, who often promises but does not keep his word. Yes, a “killer tax” or as much as 20 percent. In fact, no one has ever seen B.B. go into a library or a bookstore…
Boyko Borisov, who keeps the GERB MPs on a tight leash, did not keep his promise to reduce the VAT on books. The proposal of Ahmed Dogan’s MPs/ oddly enough, it came from them!/ to drop the tax on books, textbooks and aids was rejected by the Prime Minister’s parliamentary group on November 20. But in fact, the importers from DPS also helped with the “wise decision” – they simply left the plenary hall just before the important vote on the second reading of the tax laws for the next year 2020. The idea was suggested by the successful businessman and MP Delyan Peevski after the long summer vacation of the MPs. Then Borisov was allegedly “for”…
“Regarding the issue of books – I have been considering it for a long time with Goranov – we can make there be no tax there, because education has always been our priority /?!/ and in this term so much money was given for education that it is a drop in the ocean – the tax on the books,” said B. B. recently.
But, unfortunately, nothing like that happened.
On the other hand, the gambling bosses in our country, despite their huge profits!, pay absolutely no tax, and in the field of tourism / a profitable industry!/ the rate is only 9 percent!
Here is a reference of what the tax on books is in Europe: England and Ireland – 0%, Luxembourg – 3%, Italy and Spain – 4%, Romania, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta – 5%, Greece, Sweden, Netherlands and Portugal – 6%, Germany – 7%, Lithuania, Slovenia , Slovakia – 9%, Austria, Finland, Latvia – 10%… And in Anatolia, in Asian Turkey – by order of dictator Erdogan – 0%!
I think the comment here is redundant. The results are now available. We know them all: semi-literate students and students / since textbooks are also expensive and taxed cruelly!/ not to mention the minorities….
PP. Before 1989, in my hometown, Ruse, which, together with Plovdiv, marked the beginning of book printing and bookmaking in our country during the Turkish era, there were 8 bookstores on the main street alone, and on my street “Borisova” /”G. Dimitrov”/ there were a bookstore named “Yavorov” with only poetry books…
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