Perhaps. I'm just astounded it's a minority opinion. It seems like the whole "freedom" concept that undergirded the PC and Internet revolutions has been absolutely forgotten.
Again I ask: what would people have said if Microsoft had proposed a new OS revision that monitored everything you did and uploaded it to MS, permitted only MS to have administrative rights, and permitted only software approved by MS to execute?
I'm just amazed at how all you have to do is change the name of the company and change the form factor of the machine and people don't see it anymore. Are people that concrete-bound?
I'm not even a FOSS zealot. I don't think everything should be free, especially not free-as-in-beer. I actually wonder if the free-as-in-beer mentality is part of why we're seeing this-- there is no other way to make money since people will not pay for a plain OS or software anymore. Everything has to be paid for, so things have to be monetized differently... like by taking away all privacy and control and selling the user to advertisers and governments.
Not in a country of 1.3 billion people and only 1.6 million police officers, where everyone selling goods or services practices this.
Besides, I don't think enforcing tax collection is, or has ever been, a function of the police force.
China's internal revenue service tolerates widespread sales tax evasion via undocumented cash transactions, even if for no other reason than that they lack the auditing infrastructure necessary to enforce collection.
Meanwhile, in the cases when someone does ask for a receipt for a cash transaction, it is always because they want to "expense" it. Salary rates in China, at both state-owned and private enterprises, are shockingly low, but they compensate for it by allowing their employees to claim expense reimbursement for practically anything. Therefore, there is even a black market for receipts. If you spend cash on an expensive meal in China and you get a receipt, you can even sell that receipt to a receipt trader, who will resell it to someone else for 1% of the amount on the receipt, and then that person will claim it to their company as an expense, and get reimbursed cash for it. This sort of fraud is rampant in China.
China is not a tightly controlled nation. It is not democratic, but there is a lot of local diversity in how it is governed.
Fen probably wasn't eliminated due to inflation fears. For the same reason, they won't issue a bill larger than 100RMB even though it would be very useful.
Was going to say the same thing. I hate to be pedantic, but a better term is "fill in the blank". Traditional forms would actually be closer to a MadLibs interface than this.
Still, I knew exactly what the form was from calling it a MadLibs form, so it didn't confuse me.
