I turned on some Kansas the other day; they used this as one of their album covers. Great band, crazy painting. Really cool it's still up for the public to see, I've heard it's massive. Also, I've done some similar lobbying work with my union. Hopefully your experience was less depressing than mine! Our reps here are awful lmao
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FYI only 65 million people (<5%) pay income taxes in China.
I believe you, but just googling this it seems like the standard deduction is 60k yuan, and then income taxes are applied progressively after that? I'm sure I'm misunderstanding, but could you say a bit more about this? I'm really fascinated
Here's one of the big books on this sort of topic. I haven't read it, but I've not seen a bad review of it.
The only way to KNOW something is going to be preserved is to own it and make it that way. Private property is king.
There's constant debate at my city's planning commission on whether to turn public parks into commercial and residential developments. Even if the commission weren't all developers, literally half of them are appointed by the mayor, so it's all rigged anyway.
You can pry my YAML from my cold dead hands