The Taoyuan City Council’s Democratic Progressive Party group asked Zhang City Government to distribute 3,000 yuan in “excessive red envelopes.” The Tao City Government’s earlier counterattack against the green camp was based on politics, not citizens.

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[Reporter Xu Zhuoxun/Taoyuan Report] "Where are the citizens' red envelopes?" On the first day of work after the Lunar New Year, the Democratic Progressive Party Group of Taoyuan City Council held a press conference this morning and asked Taoyuan Mayor Zhang Shanzheng to use the total of about 6.7 billion yuan from the previous year and last year. To collect taxes, before the end of March, regardless of age and riches, each citizen will be given 3,000 yuan "excessive red envelopes"; the Taoshi government responded to this, in the past, Zheng Wencan received subsidies from the central government for excessive tax collection almost every year , but the Democratic Progressive Party Group has never advocated universal distribution, but now its attitude has changed drastically, and the starting point of the question is not the citizens, but political considerations.

Luo Chudong, Director of the Information Department of the Taoshi Government, said that in response to the central government’s excessive tax collection quota for Taoyuan City, the city government has focused on policies such as transportation, education, and social welfare that citizens are most concerned about, including 1280 monthly tickets and 20 kilometers of free urban buses. , the promotion of gift money for the three festivals for the elderly, free nutritious lunches for primary and secondary schools, bursaries for kindergarteners and lung cancer screening, etc., have all been implemented or will soon be on the road.

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Luo Chudong pointed out that the DPP group’s discussions on the use of excess taxes have not touched the most important institutional issues. In the nearly eight years from 2015 to the end of November last year, Taoyuan City paid a total of 1,561.8 billion yuan in taxes to the central government. During the same period, Tainan City paid 914.6 billion yuan in taxes to the central government, and Taoyuan City paid 647.2 billion yuan more in taxes than Tainan City. The shortfall of the city is 67.757 billion yuan, which is the lowest among the six capitals. I believe the DPP group is absolutely unacceptable.

The city government expects the Democratic Progressive Party and the Taoyuan City Government to stand together and jointly request the central government to revise this extremely unfair system design, so that the rights and interests of citizens can be fundamentally protected.

Luo Chudong emphasized that Taoyuan has been governed by the DPP for the past eight years. The DPP group should be able to put forward more constructive proposals. It should also understand that Zhang Shanzheng's priority policies are the pain points of Taoyuan City. It is regrettable to find that the simplest slogan of gold is used for political manipulation.

The Finance Bureau of the city government stated that the general distribution of cash to the public has "special regulations on strengthening economic and social resilience after the epidemic and sharing economic achievements for all" in the central government. There is the "Autonomous Regulations of Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, on Distributing People's Livelihood Relief Funds in Response to the Severe Special Infectious Pneumonia Epidemic", and the city has a balance of nearly 5 billion yuan to cope with it. The city has no source to rely on, especially the city still has nearly 33 billion yuan Therefore, the current financial situation of this city is indeed not suitable for budgeting and distributing cash to the public, and other municipalities have not distributed cash to the public, otherwise the debt will be increased. future generations.