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The new restrictive measures in Bucharest do not target gaming halls, which remain open, unlike cinemas. The explanation is simple: the tricks bring a lot of money to the budget, so necessary during this period, while the theaters do not.
“The gambling halls will NOT be closed during this period,” the Bucharest Emergency Situations Committee announced Tuesday evening.
Instead, “show and concert halls will be closed”, until the incidence rate of cases drops again below 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
“All measures will take effect on Wednesday and will last at least 7 days,” said the Bucharest Emergency Situations Committee.
The closure of theaters, but not of gambling halls, can provoke discussions about the normality of this situation.
But beyond any controversy are the numbers. The tricks bring money to the budget, and a lot of money, without which the Romanian system would collapse. Including theaters.
And that’s because all the theaters in Romania are almost entirely subsidized by the state. The National Theater in Bucharest, the largest institution of its kind in the country, is no exception.
From a financial standpoint, TNB’s greatest performance was securing a quarter of its budget from revenue.
Păcănelele provides 45,000 jobs and contributes 2 million euros a day to the state budget
“We reached the performance of being able to have our own income, in the first semester, amounting to 25% of the total budget expenditure,” said general director Ion Caramitru for Adevărul, last fall, that is, before the pandemic.
Instead, the Romanian gambling industry provides annual revenue to the state budget worth 600 million euros and a collection rate of more than 99%, say associations in the field.
The walnut industry provides 45,000 jobs and transfers 2 million euros a day to the State budget, and under these conditions it has a vital contribution to finance not only the health system, which is on the verge of collapse due to the Covid crisis -19, but also of theaters that close again.
