Comment by Veselin Stoynev:
GERB turns out to be the party of police officers and restaurateurs. For some - half and up more salaries, for others - half and up less tax. Good morning, this is the Gerber professional gene and way of life, some will say. Others will wave their hands - sure, the class-branch base of power is not from yesterday. Others will wisely refer to the national mentality - Gagno loves to fight and drink, but another Gagno will envy him with no less passion.
Gagno is not a politician when it comes to paying
The third are not right. And in non-Gagno societies, the anger of the others who are harmed by the distribution of public goods disproportionately in favor of only a few cannot be unleashed. Especially in a democracy, you are obliged to put the notebook of justice on the table, justify your benevolence with the common pie and be ready to pay your expenses.
But Gagno is not a politician when it comes to paying. More than a year ago, the parties from the current ruling four-party coalition, plus the supposedly opposition "Vazrazhdane", generously voted for significant wage growth rates in the security sector starting this year. After all, the government was nobody's, it was official, someone else should think about the budget this year, when it was their turn to pay what was promised. And now that they had to write the budget themselves, they started talking about a hole of 18 billion and that Asen Vassilev was to blame. And the hole pulsates depending on which side you stand on - if it is on a cash basis, it is a hole, if it is on an accrual basis - it is already a cosmic black hole.
Budget hole under narcotic hypnosis
Good, but last year's hole was a cooperative work of the assembly and GERB approved it. But now they say: no, we trusted Asen too much. And Delyan Dobrev claims that Vassilev hypnotized everyone by not blinking, which is why Delyan himself has already avoided looking him in the eye - So, they fell into a trance and voted for the hole.
Okay, let's say they sinned under an anesthetic hypnosis, and what is written in the law is promised, there's no way it won't be fulfilled. Well, then at least trim the edges of the hole, why pour hundreds of millions into a hat! Here, there are over 5,000 pensioners - over 10% of those employed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who receive both a pension and a salary, now with the increase they will almost reach ministerial income. Release them, give the young people a chance to develop, save money. Give 50% to the policeman from the patrol, to the criminalist, but why a hat - and to those who only do clerical work. So that they don't get angry? So that everyone in the system is happy? Yes, the Ministry of Interior is actually "the Ministry of Interior system", no head of the Ministry of Interior will tell you just the Ministry of Interior, but "the Ministry of Interior system". And rightly so, because the expenses of the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior relative to GDP are nearly three times greater than the average for the EU, so this is a hole in every way, sorry – system.
Borisov is bigger than everyone
The situation with the waste is even more innocent for restaurateurs – there is no hypnosis, there is a man's word. Covid has long passed, but their VAT will remain 9%, it will not be 20% like the others. Because Borisov promised Alibegov. And please, without such insinuations – that the restaurant is bigger than bread, than medicines, than baby food. Boyko Borisov is simply bigger than everyone – from the Joint Management Council, from the government, from the parliament, even from the budget, which is like a nightstand for him.
Even from the eurozone. So what is the eurozone for without a fight, … and Serbian music? If we don't get in, at least we'll be beaten and drunk. And those who are stretching the police and the pub – on the shameful board. Alibegovtsi and Kalinstoyanovtsi have already drawn the faces of the deputies who will vote against their high salaries and low taxes.
National gratitude from the rest with 20% VAT
It remains in kindergartens, bakeries, food chains, hospitals, pharmacies and wherever else to stick the faces of the deputies who have made millions happy, and thank them. The sick should be thankful that medicines will become even more expensive by draining the health fund without auctions in private hospitals; nurses should be thankful that they will finally disappear as a profession; mothers should be thankful that they first have to go to a pub before feeding their child; pensioners should be thankful that they managed to briefly enjoy their increased pensions, but now things are falling into place. And businesses and professionals should be thankful that the eurozone may only be an added value from the victory of the pub-police class. If not - health be with them.
By the way, being a policeman and a restaurateur are wonderful professions, as is being a deputy. However, if they become an oppressive class, the intensification of the class struggle is inevitable, Marx taught. But it was easy for him not to pay the expenses, because the capitalist Engels supported him.