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Rich people should be fined morePosted by Eric Mu, March 25, 2009 4:00 PM
 Beijing Times March 25, 2009 During a local radio broadcast yesterday, Beijing Family Planning Commission director Deng Xingzhou, spoke of the need to levy higher fines on violators of the one-child policy. Rich and famous people ignoring the law has become a serious issue, and the government is seeking to revise its regulations to tie the amount of the fine to the income of wealthy violators. In Beijing, fines currently range from three to eight times of the average annual income in the city, which may not act as much of a deterrent to people making orders of magnitude more than the average. Family planning has been in the news quite a bit recently, and Deng himself has been talking about the need to go after wealthy violaters since at least January. Also on today's front page is a report on the trial of two former policemen charged with beating a university student to death in Harbin last October. The case generated heated debate about whether it showed abuse of power on the part of the police, or if Lin Songling was unfortunately killed while the police were defending themselves from attack. A friend of the deceased who was also involved in the fighting that night is also on trial. The former policemen's lawyer filed a plea of not guilty, but the court had not announced a ruling before the newspaper went to print. Links and Sources
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Now the competent agencies come to know the seriousness of the birth control when there are too many people especially produced by the rich and the rural. Where have they (the officials in charge) been? QQ during office hour or visit porn sites online?
but how to define the rich and poor?
more money than me: rich
less money than me: poor
"But how to define the rich and poor?"
如何分辨富有貧窮﹖妳好天真! 何不用消費能力當指數﹖算隨意支配收入也可。
Ironically, it seems to be the same way in the West, only the very poor and the very rich have large broods.
I actually favor the rich having more kids than the poor or middle class. To start with, it's eugenic. Successful people are more likely to have good genes than unsuccessful people. And children born into wealthy families are born into better nutrition and better opportunities.
The sole problem I have with this setup is when the rich start becoming inbred and start boasting of their lineages. Talent is only vaguely inheritable and easily becomes diluted in only a generation's span. If giving advantages to your children is the apotheosis of meritocratic success, then it's also its negation. But in China, partible inheritance means it becomes very difficult, when combined with large families, for a single household to maintain its wealth over multiple generations.