High taxes and welfare system will only reward laziness and punish diligence.

Reflections on the ranking of low-and middle-income countries in New Zealand

New Zealand Chinese website release date: 2005- 1- 17.

65438+1October 1 1, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released the latest GDP ranking based on purchasing power, which is divided into four grades. Among the 42 more developed countries, New Zealand is a low-middle income country.

The purchasing power defined by the organization includes a comprehensive assessment of the cost of more than 3,000 commodities, from one liter of milk to the cost of building a whole house.

The richest country in the world is still Luxembourg, a small European country, and other high-income countries are Norway, the United States, Ireland and Switzerland.

The most striking is Ireland, which is quite similar to New Zealand. As small island countries, they attach great importance to environmental protection and develop smokeless industries. A few years ago, Ireland also had high taxes and high welfare, which was very similar to New Zealand's current policy, leading to its economic decline. Later, Ireland changed its tax policy, the industrial transformation was quite successful, the economy took off, and the national income increased by leaps and bounds. This year, Ireland surpassed Britain, France, Japan and other countries to become one of the countries with the highest income.

Take Australia, New Zealand's nearest neighbor, for example. Its weekly per capita income is about $200 more than that of New Zealanders, and Australia is a middle-and high-income country. The second level includes 14 middle and high income countries, including Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Iceland, Britain, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, France, Japan, Italy and Germany.

Let's take a look at the countries that belong to the middle and low income ranks with New Zealand:

Spain, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia, Korea, Malta, Czech Republic, Hungary.

If we look back at the 1950s and 1960s, we will be surprised to find that New Zealand's living standard and wealth were among the top three in the world at that time, which can be said to be "rich". It is said that New Zealand could control the price of wool in the international market at that time. Because, at that time, there was a backer, that is, before Britain joined the European Community (now called the European Union), New Zealand was always regarded as a distant farm of Britain. New Zealand's export of agricultural products is really' the emperor's daughter doesn't worry about marrying'. Take Oakland as an example. The Auckland cross-sea bridge built around the 1960s and the Auckland expressway network around the city all showed the developed degree of the country at that time.

But not long ago, decades later, things changed. New Zealand fell behind, and its ranking among the more developed countries in the OECD has been declining. Not only does it lag behind many former European Community countries, but the gap with neighboring Australia is also growing. There must be something wrong somewhere in this country.

Under such circumstances, there are still a group of New Zealanders who are not enterprising, content with the status quo, settle in a corner of the southern hemisphere and revel in' the last piece of pure land in the world'. In New Zealand, what we have always seen is the complacent chatter of government officials, the grandstanding attack of "jumping the beam" politicians on immigrants, and the "communist" New Zealand that robs the rich and helps the poor, rewards laziness and punishes diligence.

We also see that the gap between New Zealand and neighboring Australia is getting wider and wider, and talents from New Zealand are also flowing out one after another. 20% of college students expressed their willingness to go abroad to apply for jobs after graduation. We also see that nearly 400,000 people in New Zealand's population of 4 million are receiving various welfare benefits and relief funds, and many of these people are strong people who lie at home and live on taxes paid by other hardworking authors, and about 20,000 people are young people around the age of 20!

The high tax rate in the Asia-Pacific region has caused the headquarters of large enterprises to move out of New Zealand, such as Intel's headquarters in Australia and New Zealand. The punishment for criminals is too lenient, which makes the law unable to play its due deterrent role. The government provided financial compensation to the prisoners in custody, but the victims suffered greatly. The current bail system makes released prisoners commit crimes again and become murderers and principals of other violent crimes again, which leads to the deterioration of social security and has reached the point where heavy penalties must be imposed. Student loans are completely out of control. In the future, 654.38 billion "bad debts" will fall on taxpayers sooner or later. Today's education, medical care, welfare and other systems are abused, bringing many dirty diseases. ...

However, excessive accommodation of a certain ethnic group leads to its fuel, which makes ethnic relations increasingly tense; Traditional family and social ethics have encountered unprecedented challenges. The world is getting worse and worse. Only one year after the legalization of prostitutes, middle school students in New Zealand have regarded prostitutes as a choice of their ideal career in the future. Teenage prostitutes take to the streets to solicit customers themselves; Gambling is prevalent, vicious circle, more and more problem gamblers, China families also suffer; The suicide rate of teenagers is rising, and the abortion rate of underage girls remains high; What is even more incomprehensible is that the civil union bill hastily passed legislation to legalize same-sex marriage, and the adoption of children by same-sex couples has been put on the agenda; We can also expect that legalization of marijuana is not far off. All indications are that New Zealand always lags behind and catches up with the world trend in these social trends!

This country really needs some changes, and the' genes' of this society really need some' improvements'. In the face of the hard facts of the OECD, New Zealanders should really be vigilant! Only when this country is richer and more developed can the welfare level be better improved, otherwise everything will be a mirage without water. New Zealand is rich and strong, and Chinese who seek survival and development here will live and work in peace and contentment and enjoy all the benefits of a democratic country. Because New Zealand is also our home!