China Abolishes Income Tax on The Poor

[JohnTheMarxist]

I view this as a good development in China:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHI...-10-22-05-40-06 (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_TAX_CUT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-10-22-05-40-06)

[which doctor]

It is a good development, but china is becoming more capitalist every day. We should not consider them a communist or even socialist government.

[Tekun]

Pathetic... :angry:
Abolishing their taxes is meaningless due to the fact that they're not making enough money to support themselves in the first place

Its not about lowering taxes...
Its about uplifting the poor by any means, advances in farming techniques, or somethin
The gap between the rich and the poor exposes their capitalistic tendencies
And, just the basic fact that China is competing with teh US in the global economy demonstrates that China is far from being socialist

[Chuck]

Anything multiplied by zero is still zero.

It's a political move.

[jamieaskew]

Everyone should pay tax even the poor, but they should pay less. Only people who have no money should be exempt from tax. China is now just as capitalist as european countries now.

[Severian]

From the article:
"The government has warned that the growing gap could lead to serious social unrest if it isn't addressed."

In other words, moves like this reflect the Chinese regime's fear of working people.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Everyone should pay tax even the poor, but they should pay less. Only people who have no money should be exempt from tax.

Sounds like you are the dogma itself.

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

As Severian said, this is merely self-protection by the state.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2005, 03:16 PM
From the article:
"The government has warned that the growing gap could lead to serious social unrest if it isn't addressed."

In other words, moves like this reflect the Chinese regime's fear of working people.
Yup, those 80,000 protests that went down these year can do that sort of thing :D

What do you think is the chance of a genuine socialist revolution coming out in China?

[Severian]

I don't think there's a lot of socialist consciousness in China. For decades, it was even more isolated from the rest of the world than the Soviet bloc. It'll take a major advance of the class struggle elsewhere before there's a move towards communism in the post-Stalinist countries, IMO.

Working people are resisting all these privatizations, layoffs, etc., with trade-union consciousness or something basically on that level.