Shame on you China.

[BeBMan]

Beijing knows how to deal with students

[Micha]

Originally posted by BeBro
Beijing knows how to deal with students

Only if those pesky trouble-makers try to disrupt the heavenly peace... Serves them right! We don´t need no music! Try to sell Singaporean music for €3,99 to European markets - won´t work. If they brought sports shoes, computer games or toys on the other hand...

[FrostyBoy]

News just got worse, half the instruments are lost/stolen.

I bet my boss is about to ready to retire

[FrostyBoy]

Re: Re: Shame on you China.

Originally posted by Agathon


So that's a hundred dollar tax each? That's not much. Maybe they should have read the fine print before going there. There would seem to be more to this story than you have related.

They didn't tax SGD200,000, they taxed RMB1,000,000

[Kidlicious]

Taxing rich foreigners

[Theben]

taxing rich foreigners
taxing poor students
money & property going to a police state or thugs

[Zkribbler]

Re: Shame on you China.

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
Just a short story some might be interested in.

My boss organised a "Music Festival" to be held in Beijing China; 2,000 Singaporean brass instrument students from 6 Singaporean schools flew over to Beijing, all with their instruments.

So they land in Beijing the other day, and what happens? Beijing Airport holds all of their instruments and asks them to pay (tax) in order to have them released from the airport.

What is the tax? SG$200,000 (US$140,000).

So now, there are 2000 young students, stuck in Beijing, with their instruments held at ransom and they can't perform. These students paid good hard money to play at this festival and Beijing has to be a ******** and tax their instruments because of SECURITY REASONS.

A big **** you to China.

A bad story for China.

(a) They get revenue from tourism. (Can you spell Olympics?) This is going to depress tourism.

(b) They ship a lot of stuff through Singapore. Singapore might turn around and start taxing more of their stuff.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Theben
taxing rich foreigners
taxing poor students
money & property going to a police state or thugs

Hey, if a police state is going to take property it's better that they take it from the rich.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Hey, if a police state is going to take property it's better that they take it from the rich.

What is your definition of rich exactly? I see you write a lot of about it and I was just curious what you considered rich.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Sprayber


What is your definition of rich exactly? I see you write a lot of about it and I was just curious what you considered rich.

Well, even a student in Singapore is much richer than most people in China.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Well, even a student in Singapore is much richer than most people in China.

Maybe they can use the money to make sure their own students aren't crushed to death if there are more earthquakes

[Felch]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Well, even a student in Singapore is much richer than most people in China.

Why do you suppose that is?

[Q Classic]

Well, less people, for one.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Mrs Snuggles
Well, less people, for one.

Less people total won't make them wealthier. Baltimore has fewer people than New York, but it's not wealthier per capita.

And I'm sure the population density of Singapore makes China look practically empty. So it's not a matter of over-crowding.

[LordShiva]