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“Six will Fix!” against “Katas ng VAT”
Youth Against Debt’s (YAD) press briefing and photo op yesterday [08 June 2008] against the P1-billion “Katas ng VAT” dole-outs of the Arroyo administration for education came out in BusinessMirror (Page 1), Manila Bulletin (Page 15), GMANews.TV (Photo) and Tumbok (Photo).
Tumbok
09 June 2008, Page 4
Photo by Nino Orbeta (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Arroyo told: Don’t use students to justify VAT
MANILA, Philippines – Two days before the formal opening of classes, members of Youth Against Debt (YAD) lambasted Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s additional P1-billion fund for students saying it is a cheap trick to use students and their accessibility problem to education as basis for the justification of the widely hated value-added tax (VAT).
In a statement, the youth group described Mrs. Arroyo’s VAT-powered Students Assistance Fund for Education for a Strong Republic, or “Safe for SR” as pure gimmickry, shallow and not enough to be of any ambulatory measure to help the students compensate for the rising cost of education. (more…)
Six will Fix! 