Re: 共同富裕
發表於 : 2021-08-26, 12:39
資本家是民雖好,但若不節制,就不能共同富裕。
自謝博士
自謝博士
China has since the days of Deng’s pragmatic economic policies evolved over the last 3 decades into a world power, achieving a nominal per capital GDP of USD 10,000 and having allowed “a few people become rich” first. While many are observing how this “socialism with Chinese characteristics” will unfold under the hands of the subsequent leaders, wondering how China will flare in the cross currents of free wheelig-dealing capitalism and the planned economies of communism, Xi has today provided better visibility to the world. The Government under the CPC has demonstrated its ruling stability and self-reforming capabilities, staging a rapid rise of living standard domestically and peaceful uprise internationally. Clearly the think tanks and strategists in China have shrewdly observed, studied and analyzed the pros and cons of the political-economic lessons from the Russians and the Americans. The former nearly fell prey to the oil oligarchs and the latter a decaying system with excessive debt and polarized wealth distribution. National security on data aside, a cramp down on the super richness of the land developers and tech giants is in fact reflective of the steps China is taking to avoid the mistakes being/having been made by the other two super-powers. And instead of beheading the riches and allowing the side effects of capitalism and un-reigned freedom permeate and poison the younger generation (like 追星、炫富、沉迷手遊 甚或干脆「趟平」), China is dexterous in deploying her autocratic power with a refined version of economic philosophy of “guided capitalism”. The invisible hand of Adam Smith has proven problematic if not failed, resulting in incessant chase of profits and exploitation of the great general public, who are kept happy by debts beyond their means. The current Chinese leaders have not forgotten at all the unspoken follow-on of “let a few people become rich first …” (which many including me once thought, well, that was all of it and no more). Instead, silently the rise in living standards has suddenly entered into picture, and everybody is surprised that we are in fact witnessing without realizing that the unspoken follow-on sentence has been written on the wall, stroke by stroke - let a few people get rich first and the rest will benefit along the process! And this process is dynamic, being optimized constantly when conditions call for it and ripe for changes. The present ideological advocation of “common prosperity” is but a higher form of communism resembling the welfare economy of the capitalism. The first, second and third redistributions are but taxation system reforms so that a righteous and caring society will be established where the riches will take up the social responsibility of pulling up the poors, both through the visible hand of government in first (personal and corporate taxes) and second (social welfare benefits, medical benefits, education and family support tax credits) redistributions AND consciously and willingly in third (donation, charity) redistribution. In this way, the PRC government unlike its western counter-parts will not fall into the quagmire of permanently under-funded social benefits that will bankrupt the government one day. The financial markets have obviously misconstrued the signifnace and impacts . Tencent’s Pony Ma has exemplified how a virtuous capitalist should behave and many more will follow suit without doubt. However, my deeper worry is that this solution is only partially effective as the income inequality is not only limited to personal level but also geographical in terms of inter-Provincial with more prosperous ones skewed to the coastal provinces, where big companies, and hence tax incomes, are concentrated. Obviously a fourth redistribution needs to be in place with transparency and equity, and this could only be achieved by the Central Government. As we crawl along the river by feeing the stones, more twists and turns will inevitably sway the confidence of the financial market and investors, and I hope that not too much bumps will be experienced. Clearly the policy explanation is insufficient as evidenced by the confusions and fears that have been shown so far.鄧小平說讓一部份人先富起來,他不是隨便說說,後繼他的領導,沒有忘記他們的責任,把鄧小平因為含蓄和保守沒有說出來的,今天做到了,就是讓其他的人也一起共同富起來!然後,然後就沒有了?依加要追求共同富裕