M: Our gov’t has a saying: 1.3 billion people isn’t easy to raise.
M: do you think the gov’t raises the people or verse?
U: if its a people’s government
U: then
M: so many Chinese think that the Chinese gov’t are raising $1.3 billion Chinese people.
U: what does that mean?
M: the gov’t justs take taxes, doesn’t produce products
M: how can a gov’t raise the people?
M: The people work and pay the taxes. Those taxes raise the gov’t
U: but they build roads
M: with the money from the people
U: and keep society harmonious
U: exactly
U: they just take money
M: do you know you have to pay the passing fees if you drive through the roads?
M: in China?
M: highway, maybe other ways too
U: on some roads in some states
U: its called a toll
U: none here where i live
U: but in some states they have them
M: but in China, you can’t imagine how much you pay
M: there is a real case.
M: a peasant has been sentenced to life in jail because he escaped those fees.
M: he said he earned RMB$200,000 by transportation with truckes and that road company said that he escaped RMB$3,680,000 tolls
U: wow…he would be sentenced to death if he used free speech when he escaped the fees
M: the western media has reported this case.
U: really
U: its the first i have heard of it
M: it’s a complex story.
M: That peasant made a contract with the local armed police
M: The peasant used their license to escape the tolls and pay the police RMB$1200,000 a year
M: Now the court announced that the case will be reviewed.
M: it seems you haven’t realized how this story reflects the corruption system of China now vividly.
U: thats good