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[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 64 points 4 days ago

Love how hard they're trying to portray this as a bad thing lmao

[-] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 days ago

The way they're trying to frame these companies cheating on their taxes, as if the government is the bad one for not letting them get away with it. My brain is melting 🫠

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

This bit is hilarious, like what China couldn't issue currency the way the US does if they really wanted to?

“China’s fiscal deficits have reached a tipping point,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis. “There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources . . . and taxing the wealthy and some companies creates a less direct economic impact on most residents.”

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

I saw someone on Twitter called "The Great Thinker" say:

This is the worst time to do so as the economy is in a recession.

he-laughed

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 days ago

The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.

That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

If the government is in control of anything, capitalists will claim authoritarianism. This is the way.

[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

If the government is in control of anything, capitalists will claim authoritarianism.

It's more like international capital wants unfetter access to resources and labour power in China. A country doing economic or resource nationalism is the problem, not the government doing stuff. All western governments are heavily interventionists in their economies, but they do it mainly for the capitalists and especially the international capitalists, what they do for the people is for keeping social stability so that they may keep their position.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Chinese authorities are demanding wealthy individuals and companies double-check their taxes for unpaid liabilities in a move that threatens to further dent investor confidence in the world’s second-largest economy.

If rich people can't pay taxes, they shouldn't be investing.

“China’s fiscal deficits have reached a tipping point,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis. “There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources . . . and taxing the wealthy and some companies creates a less direct economic impact on most residents.”

Economists should be sent to Mars tbh

[-] fox@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources

What revenue, they're a government

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

enforcing the law against the wealthy is genocide actually

china's evil truly knows no bounds

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

"It is deeply concerning that China is trying to make the rich pay their fair share in taxes" -- western media, probably

[-] Arelin@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago
[-] mudmaniac@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Rich people. The cost is rich people.

[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Not very freedomy or very cash money democracy of them 😠

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

cash money democracy

Fucking LOL

[-] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 4 days ago

“This type of thing — local authorities levying extra fines and taxes on companies — is happening every day and it’s hurting morale,” said an economics professor in Beijing who wished to remain anonymous.

Lmfao! Cry harder plz. Muh freedums!

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 days ago

it’s hurting morale

So about these beatings... I didnt reliaze they can go both ways.

[-] Mereo@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

It's the Financial Times. Taxes are a cancer for them.

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

When it's directed at capitalists and corporations at least

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 17 points 4 days ago

I can only read the headline but that sound to me like a very good thing though.

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