Taiwan authorities "Premier Administrative Director" Lai Ching-te went to the Legislative Yuan for inquiries on the 27th. (Photo source: Taiwan's "China Times Electronic News")
China Taiwan Network reported on March 28 that after the toilet paper chaos on the island, electricity prices will rise on April 1. According to Taiwan's China Times, the Taiwan authorities' "Premier Executive" Lai Ching-te was questioned in the Legislative Yuan's general policy inquiry yesterday (27th), and was questioned that electricity prices rose, which may trigger a new wave of rising prices, and the only people's salary will not rise. Lai Jing refuted that at least 50% of Taiwan had salary increases last year, and the adjustment of electricity prices would not have a big impact. This remark caused an uproar, and netizens angrily scolded "fraud group!"
According to reports, TAI announced the actuarial version of the April electricity price adjustment table yesterday, which was adjusted to 4.8 yuan per kilowatt-hour (New Taiwan dollars, the same below), an increase of 4.1%, and an increase of 4.4% above 700 degrees. By 1,000 degrees, it has risen to 6.41 yuan per kilowatt-hour, an increase of 4.6%. In other words, if you use 700 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month, the monthly electricity bill will be 33 yuan more, which is nearly 400 yuan a year. If 1000 kWh is used, the electricity bill for that month is 3,515 yuan, which is 93 yuan higher than the old electricity price, and an increase of 1,116 yuan a year.
Lai Ching-te. (Photo source: Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud")
As for small stores such as chain restaurants and chain hair salons, the unit price increase in summer is 4.5%. Assuming that monthly use is 2,000 degrees, the average monthly increase is 113 yuan, and the whole year is 1,356 yuan, which makes people worry whether the store will pass on the cost to consumers.
When questioning Lai Ching-te, the Kuomintang "legislator" Wang Huimei pointed out that the rise in electricity prices will inevitably have a chain effect on prices and even cause inflation. However, the "main accounting department" still tried to beautify the numbers and deliberately reduced the weight of electricity prices in the consumer price index (CPI) from the original 2.2 to 1.27, reducing the annual growth rate of CPI to 0.08%.
Lai Ching-te said that the "Fair Transaction Commission" and the "Executive Yuan Consumer Protection Department" have strict supervision of prices. This speech immediately aroused Wang Huimei's dissatisfaction and said sourly, "Don't talk about the 'fair meeting'. If you talk about the 'fair meeting', you will be laughed to death! The mainland's aunts are rushing to buy gold, and our aunts are rushing to buy toilet paper. If you talk about it, you will be laughed at!"
The island has recently staged a wave of buying toilet paper. (Photo source: Taiwan's "China Times Electronic News")
Wang Huimei questioned that the Taiwan authorities' assessment data is completely different from the actual lives of the people. In the past three years, bread, fresh milk, soy sauce, etc. have all risen, so the people will say that everything has risen, but the salary has not risen, which shows that the Taiwan authorities have lacked temperature. I hope the Executive Yuan will propose specifics to respond to the public's feelings.
But Lai Ching-te claimed that the salary of most people increased last year, especially after the salary increase of military, public and educational institutions, it led to a salary increase of private enterprises. Although Wang once interrupted and said, "The problem is that the people don't feel this way?" Lai continued, "according to the survey, the proportion is more than 50%. Where does
data come from? According to Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud", former Kuomintang "legislator" Sun Daqian questioned how the "Political Office" learned that "the salary of most people in Taiwan increased last year? How many people were there? How can people without a raise in their salary to live?" Even if the salary increases, after deducting the annual expansion, the actual salary increase is actually quite limited. Lai You will find out what the actual salary increase was last year?
Lai Ching-te said that the salary of most people in Taiwan increased last year, and the general public did not feel the rise in prices.
Former meteorological anchor Li Fucheng on the island also questioned, "Lai Shen is talking about myths. How did 50% come about? It's nonsense. Young people with salary increase raise their hands."
Sun Daqian wants to think about it. How do you know that ordinary people have not felt the rise in prices? The public is already full of grievances! He called on Lai to believe what his eyes see and what his ears hear, and not to feel good about himself in a bunch of unrealistic numbers.
In addition, Sun Daqian emphasized that Lai should not take it for granted that "the people who raise their salary will not be affected", but should think about how to protect other affected people.He lamented even more, "They have struggled hard on the edge of life every day. Do you have the heart to increase their burden?"
Taiwanese netizens were indignant about Lai Ching-te's words:
Coincidentally, the new "Labor Minister" of the Taiwan authorities who were first on the Taiwan investigation station was also scolded for this statement. According to the report of "Dongsen News Cloud", Xu Mingchun had just been in office for one month and went to the "Legislative Yuan" business report on the 26th. It seemed that he could not withstand the fierce offensive of the "legislators". He welcomed a shocking education when he first came on the inquiry platform. He was first teased about "outside the situation", and then was criticized for "one question and no idea", and was slapped in the face, even the "legislators" of the DPP did not show mercy.
According to reports, during the inquiry, Xu Mingchun mentioned that the average monthly salary of employees in the industrial and service industries in 2017 was 49,989 yuan, an increase of 2.46% from 2016, while the average recurring salary was 39,953 yuan, the highest in history. But DPP "legislator" Zhao Tianlin questioned the numbers and was very happy to see them, but they were different from everyone's feelings. How did this number be calculated?
Xu admitted that the projects include accommodation, catering, information, communications, finance, insurance, real estate, etc. Some of them are indeed high-paying, "of course there is also a low-paying situation!" Zhao criticized the data, and the authorities were very at ease when they read it, and the people were much worse. Netizens were also very sorry, "Bill Gates and I have an average property of nearly $50 billion." "Why is the 'Minister of Labor' again? It's no different from Tsai Ing-wen's cousin."
Taiwan authorities' new "Minister of Labor" Xu Mingchun went to the Legislative Yuan for inquiries on the 26th. (Photo source: Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud")
Taiwan's "United Daily" main editorial office published a title "Anyway, I'm more than half of it, so what if you raise your electricity price? 》's commentary article pointed out that Lai Qingde's words made people wonder what kind of thinking logic he actually had. The article
pointed out that Lai Qingde's promotion of salary adjustment is not really about improving the level of military, public education and people's living, but rather plans to increase electricity prices after the salary adjustment and cope with the price increase caused by the rise in electricity prices. I'll get everything I give you back at once. This has been made public and has a good intention. The article
said that after some investigation, Lai said that more than 50% of the people did not feel the price increase. This is really a peaceful prosperous era, but is this the real situation really? Even if more than half of the people have paid a salary increase, they will not feel the pressure of rising electricity prices and prices. But I am afraid that nearly half of the people are in the pressure cooker where everything is rising and they are fighting for life. Could it be that Lai Ching-te only sees the people belonging to the Victory Group of Life and ignores the non-Victory Group?
Lai Ching-te was able to say this because he either provided false information by his staff or he picked up favored numbers for interpretation. Anyway, "50%" is an important keyword. Five percent means more than half, which means synonymous with maintaining the regime. The administrative department wants to raise electricity prices. Anyway, more than 50% of the people can afford it. As long as I have the means to get more than half, what can you do with me?
In response to this, Taiwanese netizens said, "I have to let all the DPPs step down by the end of the year"!
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