What would a Chinese systemlook like in the US?

[Refugee]

The after effects of the Obama years continue, but even liberals are now beginning to see the effects.

Let’s cut through the to and fro, plus the partisanship and Google links and have a look at how many of the problems could be solved using the Chinese social and economic system.

Thank the rich

Firstly, we’ll lower the basic necessities of life by 75%. Basics include public transport, social housing, basic foodstuffs and heating costs. Woah, you say, who’s going to pay for all this? You the majority are, but not by direct taxation. Items that are luxuries, i.e., add-ons that enhance life get additional taxation, things like cars, mobile phones, watches, computers etc. That tax pays to subsidise the basics, plus the ones paying also get to get a share in the cheap basics. Everyone gets a lifestyle free from absolute poverty, but if you want higher than basic you work for it. It also removes the never ending and rising direct taxation on ordinary working people to try and achieve an impossible equality.

It’s not capitalism, it’s unfair distribution

Secondly, I’m going to get a bit liberal here and say what the west suffers from is a lack of humanity, that is built into a dog eat dog system. You give free cell phones in the name of equality, so no one feels discriminated against and then shrug your shoulders at the same person now with an Obama phone rooting in the supermarket garbage skips for something to eat and sleeping under a bridge. In the UK, with a tiny population of 65 million, an estimated 40,000, many of them elderly, died of hypothermia in 2015. Quaintly termed ‘excess deaths’! Or let’s be blunt, in a first world society in the 21^st century, they freeze to death because they can’t afford heating costs.

In China I’ve seen poverty and plenty of it, but never absolute destitution and in Thailand, the Buddhist Monks provide shelter and food for those in dire straits, in return for completing menial tasks around the temple.

Promote lifestyles based on individual wealth creation

Thirdly, because of corruption and the desire to create equality the way of western distribution is open to abuse and despite increasing amounts being spent, it’s actually creating more poverty and even those now working can barely afford to keep up. It’s not capitalism then, or the rich, it’s the fault of requiring big government as distributor. It’s the old saying of, if welfare alleviates poverty, why are so many on welfare in poverty? No wonder the best job in the west is to be a politician. Ever met a poor one? Ever met a satisfied welfare recipient?

Developing countries have the benefit of hindsight. They can see what works and what doesn’t and that’s why countries like China and India are booming and western populations can’t quite work out why.

What are your thoughts on this sort of system?