01 Viewpoint
The Fraser Institute in Canada announced on Thursday (10th) that the World Economic Freedom reported in 2020, and Hong Kong was again selected as the world's most liberal economy.Government spokesman said that this is clear that Hong Kong has always firmly established a free economy and provides a fair business environment. Obviously, the cost of ignoring this honor is a social and livelihood issues brought by free economic education. It is by no means cheap.
Since 1996, the Fisa Institute has published reports on the degree of freedom of various economies every year. Among the five assessment items, Hong Kong topped international trade freedom and supervision.Hong Kong's report has ranked first in the world over the years. This year, it has been questioned or weakened by the rule of law or is weakening, which has significantly increased the public's uneasiness of property rights, so it has affected the relevant scores.
What is your life outside of vanity?
However, the name of the most free economy is vanity. What the government should pay attention to whether citizens can live in peace and work.In the economic freedom index announced in March this year, Hong Kong was first surpassed by Singapore and lost its status in the world's most free economy.EssenceIn fact, the traditional foundation belongs to the American conservative think tank. Its evaluation criteria are nothing more than the institutional advantages of regaining liberalism. Not only are ideological blind spots, but they have not considered the quality of life of citizens into consideration.For example, among the countries that pursue social democracy in Nordic, the highest ranking is Denmark (8th), and the lowest ranking is Norway (28th), but in addition to the cold weather, who will say that the Norwegian has a long quality of life.Xunxin Hong Kong?
It is undeniable that the name of the most liberal economy has the attraction of business reputation, but this so -called freedom is only the freedom of funds, the freedom of the rich, and the cost of building society and people's livelihood.According to the statistics of the government's poverty in 2018, before government policy intervention, Hong Kong's poor people were as many as 1.406 million, accounting for 20 % of the total population, of which the poverty rate of the elders was as high as 30 %.In addition to the disparity between the rich and the poor, the government has observed the free market dogma for many years, and it has also indirectly distorted the development of the property market.Even though the government has vowed to solve the problem of property prices in the past two sessions, the result is that only the Central Plains City Index has reached a new high, and it is difficult for the whole people to live and work in peace and career.
Freedom is just rich people
The rich and capitalists are very free in Hong Kong because the government does not bear the role of resource allocation. The Hong Kong tax base is narrow.The structure of this public finance not only limits the reform resources of the Hong Kong government in the fields of medical care, houses, and oldness, but also allows the government to have excuses to avoid the responsibility of taking care of the disadvantaged groups.
With social conflicts and the epidemic exposure Hong Kong, not only we are calling on the government to reform, but also Tian Beichen, a member of the Real Political Roundtable Legislative Council, who is a businessman.Therefore, the Hong Kong Government should expand the tax base through the reform tax system, and increase the government's long -term revenue through asset value -added tax and luxury tax.It has been 40 years since the active non -intervention policy of the former financial department Xia Dingji in 1980.Above, the government really wants to reflect on the expensive price of vanity.
