GS Zhou
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In winter, beans from Hainan Island will be delivered to my city, and the price is cheap. I just can't imagine how expensive it will be if we want to have Hami melon from Xinjiang with roberry at each border!
in China, the similar tax is called as "厘金". This tax started from the 3rd year of Xianfeng era (清咸丰三年, 1853), and abolished in 1930, by KMT. When the collection of 厘金 was ceased, KMT mentioned the following in the statement:
一般辦釐金者,皆視中飽為故常,以敲剝為能事,無數人員宮室之美,妻妾之奉,悉由侵蝕國家之收入,吮吸人民之膏血而來,……是故釐金不廢,吏治決無由澄清,人心決無法矯正,民生主義,亦無由實現,即國民革命更無由完成。
(A quick translation to the Chinese above: this tax is the source of the horrible corruption of our political system. There is no chance for us to make our country better, unless we make this tax collection abolished. )
Even KMT could not tolerate the low efficiency and corruption resulted by this tax...
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