bbmc sea

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Chairman @RepMoolenaar's statement on China's new Ethnic Unity law going into effect this week:

[bbmc sea @bbmc_sea]

@tweet_tokyo_web 中国共産党はあなたがアメリカへ行くことを認めているのですか？

[Gavinly @Fengyi1811]

不評論了，所有台灣人都應該看看。

[bbmc sea @bbmc_sea]

@dabowagaga 失去了…中國！

[bbmc sea @bbmc_sea]

@lelefarley 太美國🇺🇸了😂

[𝓣𝓸𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓮 ღˇ◡ˇ) @IDMTBR]



#台美關係

川普不希望有人喊要獨立！？

駐美代表「俞大㵢」闢謠‼

📣 請廣傳 ε-(´∀｀; )

[bbmc sea @bbmc_sea]

@dabowagaga ？？？現在是什麼情況…

[Kyle @Kyleyoujustdoit]

禹宣直接嗆爆哪些說台灣不是主權獨立國家的藍白樂色。

利用台灣的民主選舉享受榮華富貴，卻又要貶低台灣。

這些喊著台灣不是獨立國家的人請問：你們覺得台灣現在是誰在統治？中共國產黨？回答呀！

不爽台灣就請滾出台灣！

YT🔗
https://t.co/5rdjJzW7mh

[Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice]

TAIWAN IS NOT CHINA 🇹🇼

@PaulaYScanlan says Taiwan’s democracy, culture, and identity are distinct from Communist China — pointing to transparent elections, American values, and a people determined to remain free.

@JackPosobiec

[曹興誠 八不居士 @babujushi]

中共不必轟炸機場，只要先炸掉你的信任。
不必你愛上它，只要你開始懷疑民主、懷疑盟友、懷疑台灣值不值得守。這就是 21 世紀的新型戰爭。

它出動 130 架共機，我們砍掉 4,700 億軍購。
它撒下 230 萬則假訊息，立院還在爭論「無人機要不要買」。
美方失望、AIT 點名、海馬士付款迫在眉睫。

看清話術，才守得住自由。
👉 完整解析，點開影片
https://t.co/JhBOsU5bhW

[Inconvenient Truths — Jennifer Zeng Reports @jenniferzeng97]

As far as I know, Trump is 12 cm (4.7 inches) taller than Xi Jinping.

Why does he look shorter when they sit down?

This is how “confident” Xi Jinping is.

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Jacob🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Jacob43817149]

I love that blink 🎯

哈哈哈，这微表情太经典了！

刚和习大大握完手的卢比奥，马上就给川总使了个眼色慢慢体会，，，🤣👍

在西方生活过和熟悉英美文化的人应该都知道这眼神的内涵吧？🤓

[bbmc sea @bbmc_sea]

@dabowagaga Yes, happy children cheering 😂

[もえるあじあ ･∀･ @moeruasia01]

中国人、富士山で巨大な中国国旗を振り回す

→ 近くにいた米海兵隊が巨大な日本国旗を振り回す

→ 中国人、こそこそ撤退ｗｗｗｗ
https://t.co/nTs8RqfO6f

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

When a 🇨🇳 little pink waves the People’s Republic of China’s flag atop 🇯🇵 Mount Fuji, a US Marine does this and the 🇨🇳 little pink walks away immediately…

👍

[bbmc sea @bbmc_sea]

@OttoHuang120 那時的中國人正常多了。