Chapter 34: Pollution is a Deal

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Yang Weiwei's rebuttal is so powerful that the vast majority of domestic viewers must not be able to see its artistic conception and essence.

This is not because the domestic scholars are incompetent, but because the Chinese people have long been accustomed to accepting all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

China's taxation has a tradition of "central fiscal transfer payment", after all, this is a unitary country, and the development is very uneven, and this system is indeed needed.

The central government takes money from the tax-sharing system of the rich provinces, and then goes to build backward provinces, to help the poor in the southwest, and to carry out large-scale development in the northwest. Everyone felt that this was normal, and the people of the rich provinces on the southeast coast did not feel that they were being exploited and enslaved.

However, such a situation is unthinkable in the vast majority of capital attention countries.

Especially in a federal country, it is natural for everyone to think that the money paid by the people of the state should be spent on building the state.

In China, the tax paid by a Hujiang person may be transferred to Yunnan and Guizhou to help the poor. But in the United States, if the taxes paid by a New York State (except for federal income tax) are used to relieve the poor of Arkansas, it will definitely cause a major problem of independence - "your state" Arkansas are starving to death, what is the matter with the "state" New York lord?

Take the "property tax" (real estate tax) that was hotly discussed in China in 2017. Most Chinese people only pay attention to how to levy this thing, how to set the exemption amount, and how to control housing prices (in fact, most poor people use property tax as a means to suppress housing prices), but they rarely care about where the collected money should be spent.

This thing has been played in the United States 200 years ago, and it has been playing, but the United States government has gradually found that the federal collection of this tax will be strongly resisted and abandoned since 200 years ago. It was handed over to the state for collection, and later the state government was also subject to various protests, so it had to continue to be decentralized to the county. Until now, the property tax in the United States is still collected at the city and county level.

The reason is that every Mi has a string in their minds: it is okay to collect property tax, but the property tax collected from "my land and house" must be used to "maintain the infrastructure around my house and provide location value appreciation for my house".

In other words, even if the property tax paid by the people of Brooklyn today is used to build a subway in Queens, which only crosses one district, causing the value of some houses along the line in Queens to increase, then the people of Brooklyn will definitely take the mayor of New York City to jail.

(Note: This is just an example of a model that Chinese people can understand, in fact, the subway construction in the United States is not a factor that leads to the appreciation of real estate, but a factor that leads to the depreciation of the house.)

Because the people of the United States believe that "wherever public transportation can be reached, it means that blacks, the poor, and those who can't afford to raise a car can easily reach the surrounding area, so the land is unsafe", and the number of private cars owned by the United States is super high, and the lack of public transportation will not have a negative impact on the travel of the rich.

Therefore, in the same country, the same city in the general environment, supporting facilities are the same, the worse the public transportation, the higher the land price. The selling point is that "it is inconvenient for the poor to come here".

In addition, the "vast majority of capital pays attention to the country" mentioned above refers specifically to the countries with a 'liberal market economy', that is, the United Kingdom and the United States. The German and Japanese models of "state capital attention" in the dictatorship era do not count. Before World War II, Germany and Japan were the same as China, and the government levied money to carry out construction "in a game of chess for the whole country", such as building railways and repairing battleships. )

After analyzing these points clearly, and looking back at Yang Weiwei's accusation, you can see its power.

This is a serious indictment of "not administering according to law and administering in a disorderly manner."

If Feng Jianxiong or other members of Jinling Normal University do not deal with it properly, it is entirely possible to cause the judges to defect collectively.

After all, the competition was held in Sing Tao, a capital-focused country, and the judges almost all selected scholars with liberal values.

This is also the main reason why the Zhengfang finally lost in the competition of the same topic in parallel time and space - it did not pay enough attention to the description of administration according to law, so that it was regarded by the judges as a supporter of tyrannical and harmonious government.

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"In our previous defense, where did we say that 'the taxes and fees collected during the macroeconomic regulation and control of the number of private cars will be diverted for other purposes'? ”

Although he was forced to the door aggressively by the other party, Feng Jianxiong's answer was still very restrained.

The logic of "whoever asserts, who adduces" is strictly observed. Never take an extra step to avoid giving the impression that "he did a lot of homework before the game, so he took the initiative to estimate how the opponent will frame".

If the debater on the other side is an urgent person who is easily provoked, I am afraid that he will have the intention of hitting someone.

Yang Weiwei is obviously not someone who is easily provoked.

But she also took this opportunity to realize Feng Jianxiong's calmness. The one who pretended to be confused and had to take the initiative to pierce every layer of window paper on the attacker, so that he could fight back in a timely manner.

"Then please give me an example, how do you think the government can spend the money after it collects it?" Yang Weiwei asked the question to the details with a slight resentment in her heart.

Feng Jianxiong was waiting for the other party to have to ask so specifically.

"For example, I think the additional fees levied when limiting the number of private car licences can be used to subsidize the urban public transport system to reduce the fare of public transport," he said. ”

Yang Weiwei was a little surprised, but the situation was still under her control. After only two seconds of thought, she answered:

"Don't you feel ashamed to characterize this way of spending money as 'taking it from certain people and using it for those people'? Everyone knows that urban public transport is mainly for people who don't buy a car. And people who buy a private car rarely or rarely take the bus. Therefore, this way of using taxes is completely 'subsidizing the poor with the money of the rich', which is the wanton expansion of egalitarianism. ”

Feng Jianxiong immediately pointed out the error of Yang Weiwei's logic: "No, this is not egalitarianism at all, if I have to give an analogy, I think a more appropriate example is the 'carbon emissions trading' defined in the Kyoto Protocol on climate and environment - in the era when pollution problems were not serious and environmental awareness was low, people did not have the awareness to limit pollutant emissions, and there was no 'sewage fee'."

However, with the global consensus on pollution and carbon emissions, people realized that "some people and countries are actually contributing to all mankind by adopting low-carbon production and lifestyles". Therefore, is there anything wrong with people who emit more than the average value of their lives to pay a certain amount of compensation to environmental protection people with a greener lifestyle and lower carbon emissions, in order to buy their own pollution targets?

The additional heavy tax on private car owners can undoubtedly be legally defined as an emissions tax, which is subsidized to car-free people who have less emissions and take public transportation – you know, if two households with the same commuting needs drive a private car and the other family makes full use of the city's public transport system, the former will be five to six times more polluting than the latter. ”

Yang Weiwei only felt a little bitter in her mouth, her brain was running rapidly, she could only give her teammates a look first, let them take the field to deal with it, and she herself was thinking about how to transfer the battlefield.

"This Feng Jianxiong's practical governance skills are very well prepared, and the two angles of 'administering according to law' and 'taxes taken from the people must be used by the people' have been completely blocked by him. ”

"What can I do? I can only use the killer weapon in advance, or try to attack again on the issue of 'this administrative intervention of the government in civil liberties and restricting citizens' right to choose'?"

Yang Weiwei thought for about half a minute. Feng Jianxiong, who was on the other side, also temporarily stopped for a while, obviously preparing to lead the whole team to adjust the rhythm and carry the whole game.

The scene was temporarily conceded to Tian Haimo, Yu Meiqin and the second-tier players of ZhongS University who were arguing and fighting for a short time.

According to the rehearsal before the game, Tang Wen emphasized with a slightly weak argument: "Please pay attention to the opponent's defense friends, even if it is a market-based regulation and control method, it has led to some social unfairness.

For example, if we take Hujiang City, which has begun to limit license plates, as an example, a license plate now costs tens of thousands of yuan by bidding. Many people who could have been able to afford a car can only give up the opportunity to buy a car to people who are richer and not poor in money because they can't afford to get a license, doesn't this increase the gap of social injustice?" (Note: These few sentences are almost historical facts, and the opposing side said such a mentally retarded reason at that time, and it was retained.) )

In the face of this kind of mentally retarded resistance, Tian Haimo replied in a dashing manner: "It turns out that the opponent's defense friend just said that he opposes administrative coercion and wants a free market. In the blink of an eye, I feel that 'supply is scarce and the price is high' is also a kind of exacerbation of social inequality?

I would like to ask, what is the position of the opponent's defense friend? Isn't it natural that more money can buy things that less money can't buy? If this cannot be done, won't we return to egalitarianism, or the state of the feudal dynasty when 'merchants are rich, but they are not allowed to wear fine clothes.'"

As soon as Chen Han heard Tang Wen's plan just now, he knew that he was going to suffer, so he hurriedly came to the rescue and changed the topic: "We also ask the opponent to pay attention to the fact that with the policy of Hujiang, although the government has limited the license by economic means, the problem of controlling urban congestion and sewage has not been solved at all.

Many car buyers who can't afford to spend money have turned to rely on their relationships and find ways to go to surrounding cities to get licenses, and then continue to drive back to Hujiang. After all these years, the Hujiang River is still so congested, and the air quality still has to withstand such a large amount of exhaust gas. So it's better to block than to be sparse, it's useless to limit cards!"

Chen Han thought that he could breathe a sigh of relief after saying this, but unfortunately Yu Meiqin's speech immediately shattered his illusions.

"Whether the limit is useful or not is a technical issue, not a position issue. The method can be improved in the pilot, if the problem of foreign license plate cars is too serious, it can be set to 'foreign license plates are not allowed to go to Central during rush hour, and even will not be allowed to go to the outer ring in the future', please don't care about the other side of the defense friend left and right to talk about him!"