Chen Wenqian is a senior politician, as the number one mouthpiece of MJ's file that year, she was once known as the person who can pick the GM file the most in Wanwan politics.

Therefore, the political details mentioned by Chen Wenqian are generally so tricky that they can't be more tricky, and even MYJ or LZ/SCY will have a headache when they hear it.

Today's debate relates to tackling urban congestion. In particular, it involves the question of whether and to what extent the government's non-mandatory administrative planning and intervention can work.

Therefore, Chen Wenqian thoughtfully cited the case of the congested city in Los Angeles as a point of attack.

This attack point is very well chosen.

It can be said that if the questioner is only allowed to cite one city on the earth, it will be used as "a negative teaching material for the failure of the government to block politics".

Then, as long as this questioner is really insightful, then she will definitely choose Los Angeles to be on this pillar of shame.

Maybe Los Angeles isn't the most congested city on the planet.

But it is indeed the most congested city on the planet because of its own "work".

It is different from the impression of many Chinese people who don't know about the country.

Anyone who has actually been to Los Angeles knows that it resembles a large rural village — or to put it mildly, "a continuous urban-rural junction covering thousands of square kilometers."

As the second largest city in the whole country, the core metro area of Los Angeles has a population of more than 13 million, but compared to New York City in the east, there are almost no high-rise buildings, and the whole city is flat and indulgent.

As a result, the city is many times larger than New York, and residents have to travel long distances to commute through the city.

When the Los Angeles county government planned this, the idea was very good: the great west of the United States at that time was vast and sparsely populated, and the land was cheap. The main cost of building a house is the cost of construction rather than the cost of the land, which can be squandered as much as you like. Therefore, if you can't afford a high-rise building, everyone lives comfortably and spaciously, and the cost is cheap, so why not?

As for the problem of "too large an urban area and difficulty in commuting through the city" caused by the city being too flat and not three-dimensional enough, the officials at the time pat their heads like this: Los Angeles can be planned into forty or fifty community settlement satellite towns, and each community settlement has factories, commercial complexes, CBD office blocks, residential areas, education and medical ......

Then it is best to realize that "the people of each district can work and live without leaving their own district, and digest the commuting needs within the district." That way, not many people will have to travel long distances across the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area, and congestion will be eliminated."

The idea is beautiful, the reality is skinny.

After the planning was completed, Californians realized that the industrial landscape in Los Angeles was changing too quickly.

As one of the world's leading cultural and media industries, the city's job mobility and social class changes dramatically. Almost all of the world's creative industries are revolutionized here, with millions of Lopiao leaving the scene every year, and millions of Lopiao from the world's countryside cramming ambitions.

So the politicians' hypothesis that they wanted residents to work and live in their districts was never realized. The 13 million Angelenos quickly returned to living "no matter where they lived, no matter where they worked, and they still had to walk through the city all the time."

Then the irreversible congestion of the city exploded.

On Earth in 2007, no one thought about whether the government could solve this problem through planning.

In fact, this solution is not directly related to today's debate.

But since Chen Wenqian wants to use this trick, it proves that "administrative control is not necessarily useful".

Regardless of whether this issue is within his scope of responsibility, Feng Jianxiong must do the opposite and make her die clearly.

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"The problem in Los Angeles is not evidence that 'government administrative control methods are ineffective in curing congestion', but only because the local governance methods in Los Angeles are not smart enough.

I can find a similar example of a similar population size, urban area, and administrative area, and all of them have implemented a 'decentralized' governance policy as proof.

For example, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany has an area of 32,000 square kilometers and a population of 18 million. The greater Los Angeles area has 5 counties, an area of 89,000 square kilometers, and a population of 18 million.

If you count the Los Angeles metro area alone, it is 12,500 square kilometers and a population of 13 million. According to the population and area of the major urban areas of North Rhine-Westphine-Westphalia, it can be seen that the urban population of North Rhine-Westphalia is almost the same as that of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, but the urban area is 30%~40% smaller than that of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

So, are the Germans stuck in traffic? Are the Germans sick in the face of megacities? Anyone with a little common sense knows that no. Germany is the best country in the world in the world in terms of managing megacities.

Only Berlin has a population of more than 3 million people – and that's because of East Germany's planning tendency towards Sovietization. However, there are only three cities with a population of more than one million in Germany, and the former West German cities of Hamburg and Munich in third place have only more than 1 million people.

The Paris metropolitan area of neighboring France has a population of 20 million, and London in the United Kingdom has a population of more than 8 million, but those countries have more land per capita than Germany. It is also the two major financial hearts of Europe, corresponding to 8 million people in London and only more than 500,000 in Frankfurt.

So, how do Germans solve the problem of 'making people in every small city and block live in their own towns and blocks with peace of mind, and running around for no other reason to cause unnecessary congestion'? In fact, it is very simple, the level of property tax pooling in Germans is at least one level higher than that of the United States.

As mentioned earlier, in the United States, the level of real estate tax/property tax collection has been delegated to the county level, or even only the municipal government. This is a big problem, that is, the lack of investment in the construction of large-scale transportation infrastructure, and many cross-regional roads in the country are very old.

Because the property tax collected by the city cannot be used to build cross-city roads, otherwise the residents of the city — in the case of Los Angeles, a specific 'satellite city' — would be unhappy and would vote for the city to decide whether the city government or not.

(Note: In the United States, the people can not pay a part of the tax and do not want the municipal government at the same level, but then it will be directly managed by the county, and many city-level public administration services will be gone, and some places with unclear divisions will be directly managed by the state.) It's just that it's easy to do this, and you can't call the police in time when the law and order is bad. State and county governments can't do without. ）

As a result, Los Angeles lacks a highly coordinated elevated highway around the city. All urban roads can't separate enough roads for fast cross-city vehicles and short-distance vehicles, and long-distance vehicles can only drive at countless traffic lights and low speed limits.

Therefore, to solve this problem is actually very simple, or whether to solve it, it depends on the choice of the people of California and the people of Los Angeles. They are unwilling to raise the overall level of property tax, for the people who 'the property tax I pay can only be used to build my community, and cannot even be used in places that are one step beyond the community', they use their own freedom and choose to block it themselves!

After Governor Schwarzenegger came to power, he actually gave the people the opportunity to choose, and launched a bill to raise the overall level of property tax in order to improve the infrastructure of Los Angeles, but the locals themselves did not vote!"

Feng saw that he was beaming, and with a thousand words in his mouth, he scolded Chen Wenqian's trick back lightly.

Although it takes a bit of time, according to the rules of the competition, there is no time limit for the judges' questions to be asked, as long as they don't go off topic, they can answer as long as they want.

After Feng Jianxiong finished answering, he saw full shock in the eyes of the other four judges.

"Is this guy really a law student with no experience in government? How do you feel that at least he is a high-level government think tank or a mouthpiece of the propaganda department who can talk and laugh with governors and mayors about specific administrative policies?"

"Even Wanwan's former propaganda minister can't spray a school student? The tricky 'parliamentary question' that he painstakingly prepared has been answered? If this person is in Wanwan, the LZ of the GM file should ask him to be the spokesman of the parliament!"

Chen Wenqian said that she only had a chance to ask, and she couldn't speak again. But she couldn't help it, and reluctantly pulled down her face and forcibly asked: "This classmate, do you say that enduring traffic jams is a necessary price for the people to defend their right to use their own taxes? Is this the attitude that a politician in a democratic state should have?"

"I didn't say that, I just said it was one of their options. In fact, politicians all over the world have used administrative control to control traffic jams more effective methods, and I just want to emphasize that the fact that former California officials can't do well doesn't mean that others can't do it well.

If you're not satisfied, I can take a step back and give another example – I'm sure you know Vancouver Mayor Luo Pinxin, who just ran for election. His campaign platform was to transfer and accept a portion of the Los Angeles exodus, mainly to copy and take over the Hollywood business.

Mayor Luo also faced the increasingly serious traffic jam problem in Vancouver, but he used pure economic control to alleviate the problem. For example, the property tax is used to invest in compensating for public bicycles.

Another example is the introduction of immigrants of certain ethnic groups, changing the trend of real estate valuation among the downtown population, which has led to a sharp increase in the housing prices of urban centers and high-rise buildings.

Then the corresponding increase in property tax is used to force the poor people living together in the city center, and it also promotes the planning of more high-rise buildings in the core urban area, increasing the three-dimensionality of the city and increasing the construction of elevated highways through the city......

In fact, as far as I know, Governor Schwarzenegger and local officials in Los Angeles have also had the idea of learning from this set of advanced practices in recent years, and have brought in a few big real estate developers in China to discuss the overall replanning......

Feng Jianxiong quoted scriptures again, talked and laughed, and talked about the solution to the sky.