Philippine Genre Stories made a post quoting The Curious Couch:
Here’s the lowdown on the DOF exemption.
According to the NBDB, the individual book buyer must apply for duty exemption at the DOF. You get the exemption the same day you apply for it; you have to apply for an exemption every time you have books coming in. It’s just how it is right now.
An EO zero-rating books is in the works and it just might make our lives as individual book buyers much easier. But we still have to wait and see.
The government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has a long train of abuses and usurpations. They have lavish dinners while books are taxed against International Law. They hide the fact that FDI has been on constant decline for the last 10 years and they fracking insist of the same old thing will work. They do a conass and want to stay in power.
FRACK. DO. YOUR. FRACKING. JOBS. FIRST.
The sheer arrogance of these people! What can we fracking do with this idiotic government?
Here’s a refresher course if you’ve forgotten:
1. What started it all: Robin Hemley’s The Great Book Blockade of 2009.
2. Manolo Quezon’s The Great Book Blockade: Timeline and Readings.
3. @komikero’s video on the Great Book Blockade:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Hdppn9_lo&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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Yuck, they’re so makapal na talaga.
Always always missing is the deep sense of right. It is buried under administrative mickey mouse harassments.
Nitwits abound and write government regulations.
Joe
You Troublesome Middle Classes
Sparks, po-em mo yun? Galing ah.
Mas may importante pang topic kesa book blockade… Traffic. Kung mabawasan lang mga traffic jams, siguro mawawala din ang mga morong pusakal sa Mindanao.
Morality a la butterfly effect.
Sparks, wag kang mag-pa-coiffure sa Basement:
http://chuvaness.livejournal.com/669837.html
Grabe, garapalan na talaga.
im not the salon going type. you probably know more about fashion than me as i dont read chuvaness :-/
They tax everything so that they can have expensive dinners at
Le Cirque, and stay at Waldorf Astoria Hotel. You are the slave.
They are the masters.
I think these people in government aren’t fond of reading, so they don’t mind anything that makes books difficult to get. Probably like Stalin; he was afraid of flying, so he put all his aircraft designers in jail.
What’s the tax law we have on imported books? Can a campaign for repealing it be done?
What can we fracking do with this idiotic government? Let’s first do something about our own idiocy. The Le Cirque thing is a tip of a giant iceberg of profligacy that has been floating around and getting bigger and bigger since Queen Gloria, acting as President, went on her first junket.
It took a foreign press to get us scandalized at something we already know, or should. Well? Should I say better late than never or, what can we expect of idiots like us? Since when have books been prescribed for conditions like ours?
“The sheer arrogance of these people! What can we fracking do with this idiotic government?”-cocoy
We wanted to “surge the gate” but some would rather “move on” or “wait for 2010″, so, what to do now? Grin and bear it, heheh.
“Wait for 2010″ used to be Gloria’s line. Soon it was adopted by her opponents who fell for the Malacanang ruse caled HR 1109. It created a phantom called ConAss which they chased, in lieu of the real thing. Their hidden message: Stay on til 2010 but not beyond, please. This is how cleverly Gloria killed the “surge the gates” moves.
In case you guys didn’t notice, the wannabes aren’t biting.. of if they were.. as lip service.
You know why.. because once the wannabe is in.. it will be same o same o… kayo naman… parang born yesterday
That said, blogging has yet to really accomplish anything, would this be correct to say?
I thought all along that the pioneering works of those that advocate this so-called Great Book Blockage really came home with the trophy.
Now, it is clear, it cannot have peace of mind since what they brought with them is an empty bag – no such thing as tax exemption.
And yet, it has been trumpeted that they won over their woes only to tell us that this isn’t exactly the case, it was never the case.
So, I think this is ‘too much, too little, too late’.