The President “ain’t” deaf. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde gave that spin to Ms Arroyo’s sensible order to Finance Secretary Margarito Teves: scrap taxes, clamped by Bureau of Customs, on imported books and reading material.
“Books give light to my eyes,” the Ibanag proverb says. Thus, “President Arroyo wants books to be within reach of the common man,” spinmeister Remonde explained. “She believes reading as an important value for intellectual formation, which is the foundation of a healthy public opinion necessary for a vibrant democracy.”
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