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Paul II's idea still worked, he took the bronze triple crown that had been passed down through the generations, and then began to use the secret sacred art of the Vatican to bless the bronze triple crown, and it took more than two hours to finally deplete the holy light in his body, and then stopped.

After that, Fan Wuxian began to diagnose and treat him, and sure enough, his symptoms were much milder, Fan Wuxian felt that two treatments could make him healthy, but in order to show his hard work, he delayed for a few more days, and the treatment was not over until a week later.

Within this week, Paul II clearly felt that his physical condition had improved, and after a week of treatment, the symptoms of Parkinson's disease also disappeared completely, after a series of instrument tests, it was proved that Paul II had been free from Parkinson's disease, and his previous symptoms have also been significantly improved.

The two cardinals were also amazed to see such a miraculous healing technique, especially after the treatment, the light in Paul II's body began to slowly recover, which made them feel reassured, otherwise if Fan Wuxian was really the spokesman of some evil force, His Majesty the Pope would have fallen into the arms of the devil.

In that case, it will be a tragedy that will make the world laugh forever.

Fan Wuxian also has some gains in this treatment, because he clearly found the biggest difference between foreigners and Chinese physique, that is, foreigners' rough lines, simple and thick meridians, so it is easy to be captured by religious tools such as Catholicism, become believers with simple beliefs, and the meridian system of Chinese is more complicated, so it is more difficult to use religion to influence Chinese, and it often requires a very complex system of divine stick doctrine to make Chinese fall into it.

And Fan Wuzhi is also on the so-called Holy Light Enter. After a more in-depth analysis, it was found that this thing is similar to the true qi of the inner family, but the structure is relatively simple, so the average Catholic believer can also obtain the holy light, generally speaking, the simpler the thought, the easier it is to obtain more holy light, this truth is similar to the successful people in martial arts are often the kind of stupid people with stupid blessings.

After the analysis, Fan Wuzhi also had a problem. Now, his inner true qi can actually imitate the holy light, just by using the vibration of the same frequency as the holy light to excite it, he can transform the true qi in his body into an extremely abundant holy light.

Therefore, when Fan Wuxian ended his treatment of Paul II, Ke. He deliberately expressed the holy light on his body, and as a result, the whole room was filled with a milky white halo, which surprised Paul II and the two cardinals to a degree that no pope in recent generations had ever heard of, let alone seen, with his own eyes.

A term immediately came to mind, paladin.

Although the Vatican today also has so-called paladins, but everyone. They all know that this is just a historical inheritance, in fact, they can only ride horses and fencing at most, and they can't emit the so-called holy light at all, let alone be able to show the power of faith against the enemy.

It is said that at the time of the Crusades, the paladins still had this . set of the inheritance of faith, but now, basically no one can say what the power of faith is?

At this time, Fan has no disease abruptly. Ran showed his hand, which shocked everyone, but they felt that this was the power of the Lord, otherwise how could a Chinese suddenly have such a strong power of faith?

But in any case, Paul II and the other three felt that this trip to China was not in vain, not only cured the disease, but also found a Chinese with a strong "power of faith", or the guidance of the Lord.

Paul II and others did not stay in the capital for long, and when leaving, Paul II presented a paladin medal to Fan Wuxian to thank him for curing his illness, and explained to Fan Wuxian that this paladin medal is also a cultural relic medal that has been handed down for hundreds of years.

Fan Wuxian was very interested in collecting these artifacts, and he also expressed his friendship to Paul II, inviting them to his home. After appreciating the rich and diverse cooking techniques of Chinese home-cooked food, Paul II and others felt very novel, although the clergy wanted to ban their own **, but when they saw that they could make a variety of delicious dishes with such simple ingredients, they still expressed their admiration.

Fan Heng is not at home, he has left the capital and returned to Jiangnan Province, otherwise if he knows that the world's biggest magic stick is a guest at home, it is estimated that there will be a little entanglement in his heart, especially this god stick still has a long-term ** position.

Anyway, Fan Wuxian has gained a lot this time, and he has also demonstrated his strong strength in the social circle, even the Pope of the Vatican can be caught to act as Fan Ting's wedding host, what else can't be done?

Paul II probably asked his subordinates what they should pay attention to when they came to contact with the Chinese, and brought gifts when they came to eat, and it was not very expensive, that is, they produced more olive oil on the Italian peninsula, which was also often used in religious ceremonies, so it was very solemn for him to bring it.

After dinner, everyone sat down and started chatting, and for some reason, they talked about the welfare of the country.

In recent years, in order to reduce the burden on the government, the Chinese government has introduced a policy to stop the distribution of welfare housing, and at the same time, it is also promoting the socialization of publicly-funded medical care, and in terms of taxation, the introduction of the tax-sharing system has also greatly increased the total tax revenue, which has caused a question, what does the reduction of national welfare mean?

Paul II had also studied these issues carefully, so he said to Fan Wuxian, "The debate about the welfare state has been going on for a long time. For ordinary people, it is better to have welfare than nothing, so they are all in favor of the welfare state. But for financial experts, they have an extra layer of thinking and a lot of doubts. One of the most basic questions is, where does the money for welfare come from? Where is it used? Ordinary people always think that the government's money has its own source, and it is always good to have money to spend on themselves. In fact, the government does not create wealth, but consumes it. At the end of the day, government money is collected from taxpayers. And the bigger the government, the more things it manages, and the more money it spends. In general, the government collects taxes from taxpayers and then uses them on taxpayers, which is a bit redundant. And getting the government to tax more, which expands the power of the government, is not necessarily a good thing in some countries. Rather than levying taxes and then returning them, it would save a lot of money on taxation and redistribution, and overall efficiency would be higher, which was the main argument against the welfare state. ”

"I'm also a little confused about that." Fan Wuxian didn't understand this very well, so he scratched his head and said, "I think the welfare state also has its drawbacks, for example, the welfare policies of some countries in Northern Europe, although they are beneficial to the poor, but in a sense, they can also be said to be supporting lazy people, which also seems inappropriate." ”

Judging by the exact source of tax revenue and where it goes, the welfare state is nothing more than a policy of income redistribution. Whether it is good or not depends on who collects the tax from and who spends it.

If it is levied from the wealthier strata and used by the poorer groups, it corrects the excessively large gap between the rich and the poor, and such benefits may be good. But if the tax is levied from the general public and used by the general public, this welfare policy is redundant, because it does not change the distribution of income, and all that remains is that undesirable side effect.

Worse still, taxing low-income people to help high-income people worsens income distribution and reduces efficiency, and this undesirable side effect is to change the direction of people's efforts.

In a market economy, people strive to make money, that is, to create wealth. In the welfare system, people try to take advantage of loopholes, avoid when they pay money, and take the lead when they distribute benefits. It can be said that the direction of struggle of the whole society has been distorted, from wealth creation to wealth distribution, and people's power is used to cancel each other's internal friction, and cannot increase the wealth of society.

Poverty alleviation with taxpayers' money has similar problems, but poverty alleviation is necessary and the side effects can be overcome. And the welfare of the common people is not necessary, and the welfare of the rich is even more harmful.

"According to most tax experts, some countries, such as yours, have tax systems that are not good for the poor. In other words, the poor pay more taxes as a percentage of their income. For example, 25 percent of the income of the poor is taxed, while the rich pay only 18. This is because your country's tax revenues are mainly related to the circulation of goods, that is, to the consumption of the people. The rich consume a low share of total income and have a high share of savings, while the poor, on the contrary, consume a high share of total income. As a result, the rich pay less taxes as a percentage of their income than the poor. One of Paul II's cardinals, who had apparently been in charge of the Vatican's economic affairs for a long time, said of this, "The personal income adjustment tax is used to correct the gap between the rich and the poor, but the income adjustment tax in your country does not have such a role at all, because most of the rich people evade taxes, and in fact this part of the tax is mainly collected from the working class, and it plays a counter-regulating role." The distortion caused by this tax has to be corrected, and it is another big problem that the tax system must be found. ”

Fan Wuxian nodded, in fact, he also knew that what the cardinal said was indeed a thing, just like his company, because he could enjoy various tax exemptions, or through financial experts, he could reasonably avoid taxes through legal means, so the money that could be saved every year from this aspect alone was a very terrifying astronomical amount.

For most joint ventures or foreign-funded enterprises, the preferential policies and tax policies enjoyed are basically eye-catching, which also results in a tax policy for the poor to feed the rich.

Even if tax policy is not distorted, there is the question of spending, that is, who does the government spend its money on welfare?

If it is spent on ordinary people, take the money from everyone's hands and then use it for everyone, which is like the previous said is a redundant move, and the money from everyone's hands has gone around and returned to everyone's hands, there is a leakage, not only the administrative cost of taxation and redistribution, but also the cost of corruption. For example, if you pay 100 yuan, you may not even get 90 yuan back, so this kind of benefit is not as effective as tax cuts.

The cardinal went on to explain to Van Wuji, "If welfare spending is for low-income people, such benefits make sense. However, the target of welfare measures must be the lowest-income group, not the low- and middle-income group. It is obviously unreasonable to put limited money on whom, not for the lowest income group but for the middle and low income groups, and to ignore the most needy people. Of course, it is difficult to determine who is the lowest-income person. But the problem is often not the difficulty of identification, but the fundamental misdirection. ”

Fan Wuxian was a little confused when he heard it, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized something.

This is like the affordable housing system introduced later, although the original intention was to help the people who are in difficulty to solve the housing problem, but in fact it is not to help the most difficult people, it can be said that the affordable housing is to help people who have hundreds of thousands of dollars, they are obviously not the most difficult people. In contrast, migrant workers who go to the city to work are much more difficult than them. But they can't afford to buy a house, so the policy to solve their housing should be low-rent housing, or better yet, give housing subsidies and let them find the best combination of money for themselves.

Paul II concludes, "When the stakes are clear, it is those who are in favour of the welfare state who are on lower incomes and who are expected to benefit from the state's welfare policies." The opposition is against those with high incomes, because a part of their income goes to others. Low-income people are in the majority if they vote by show of hands, so welfare state proposals tend to be easily passed in Parliament. Welfare policies can alleviate the gap between the rich and the poor, which is beneficial to social stability. High-income earners will not strongly disagree either. However, it is inevitable that there will be people in society who take advantage of welfare policies to be lazy. Those who are able to work do not work and live on welfare subsidies. For high-income earners, high benefits will reduce their motivation to earn money because the extra money earned is spent by others. As a result, unemployment remains high in society, wealth creation decreases, and the society is pervasive with a lazy mentality. This is a side effect of the welfare state, and it is a phenomenon that does exist in the welfare state today. ”

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