Robbing us of print literature.....

This article was recently in the Danish newspaper:

Foreign magazines face colossal levy

In a nutshell this means that the Danish government wants to charge a fee for EVERY SINGLE MAGAZINE we order from outside the EU. And this is not just a NORMAL-SIZED fee but 160kroner added to each and every magazine. 


Now I am not a big magazine subscriber; however I do have a subscription to The New Yorker....you know, that magazine that has been around since the 1920s....the one that publishes works by folks like Vonnegut, Salinger, and Updike... the one that offers literary criticism and keeps quality literature in the hands of the masses. Yeah, THAT New Yorker.


I received my renewal notification last week for The New Yorker and it will, as always, cost me about 600 Danish kroner to renew for another year (and that 600kroner gets me 47 issues a year).


So each issue costs me about 13kroner. 
Add to that the new FEE that the government wants to impose and that brings each issue to 173 kroner..meaning that my 600dkk annual subscription will cost MORE THAN EIGHT THOUSAND KRONER a year. (Pretty sure my math is right this time...lol)

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? 

Now if the EU would like to show me a magazine that offers the same literary quality as The New Yorker, I would gladly consider it, but otherwise NO DEAL.


The fact that a government which PRIDES ITSELF on education and "internationalisering" wants to add this kind of a TAX to PRINT LITERATURE from international publishers just astounds me.


Usually I can find some kind of relevance and meaning in the enormous amounts of taxes and fees that the Danish government imposes on us.... in other words, I can see the bigger picture. But this??? This is 100% RIDICULOUS. 
I just need to figure out how to make my voice heard before this goes to a vote on April 1. 


(and no, a solution is not to subscribe to The New Yorker on my iPad. This is one magazine that I WANT IN PRINT....to save.... to read again and again..... Some things, in my opinion, should not move to the electronic platform.)