Dear friends:
Maybe we have never really thought about this question. When we eat at McDonald's or KFC, and of course when we shop at Walmart or Trust-Mart as well, not only are we taking in junk food that is bad for our health, we have also never asked them for a receipt! If every Chinese person asked for a receipt after dining at McDonald's or KFC, then the taxes the Americans would have to pay to our country would be enough to build lots of aircraft carriers!!! Start with me!
On the eighth day of the war, the McDonald's near my company was still doing booming business. Last night, a comrade on Tiexue called for boycotting American goods and opposing the war. Although his idea was unrealistic, even naive, we all understand how he feels.
It inevitably reminded me of an experience I had at McDonald's a month ago. There were quite a few people in the store. After I paid, I asked for a receipt. The duty manager took out a notebook and asked me to sign my name, saying that because they were now using scratch-lottery receipts, the store required any customer asking for a receipt to sign, to prevent employees from secretly taking receipts for themselves and scratching them. I refused. There is no rule saying you have to sign just to get a receipt. Things got a bit deadlocked. The people behind me in line began urging me on, and a guy with glasses muttered: If you want to win a prize, don't waste our time... I had no choice. I picked up the pen and solemnly signed three characters: Osama bin Laden! （@_@ *_*）
Taking the receipt from the manager's bewildered hands, I tore it up and threw it into the tray. I said: I just don't want Americans stealing China's taxes. Later I found that almost everyone behind me asked for a receipt too, including that guy with glasses. Most of us do not have the habit of asking for receipts. Maybe in a restaurant, when we are seated, we don't mind calling a waiter over to bring us the receipt. But at McDonald's, KFC, Walmart, Carrefour, and so on, we are unwilling to go to the trouble of asking for one. In today's globalized market, we cannot boycott certain things. But if we love our country, we can start with the little things around us. It only costs you a few minutes.
To put it on a bigger scale, we can do the math (if any data is wrong, corrections are welcome).
China's total retail sales of consumer goods last year: 700 billion; food, beverage, and entertainment spending: 600 billion; together 1.3 trillion. Subtract rural consumption, group consumption (paid by the state), and bulk consumption (home appliances and the like that must issue receipts), and there is still about 400 billion in cash circulation. At a tax rate of 5% (the rate for food, beverage, and entertainment is even higher), the tax revenue lost each year is: 20 billion. This includes tax evasion by McDonald's, KFC, Walmart, Carrefour, and so on.
If 10% of people are willing to spend a few extra minutes, we will have 2 billion, enough to build the hull of an aircraft carrier.
If 20% of people are willing to spend a few extra minutes, we will have another 2 billion, enough to fit out the aircraft carrier.
I have already gotten used to asking for receipts. This is the simplest patriotic thing I can do within my ability. Although part of this tax revenue may very likely end up in certain people's pockets, I still believe this is a kind of strength.
There is one kind of place where I do not ask for a receipt: very small snack stalls or grocery shops, because they may very well be run by laid-off workers.
If you support this, please spread it widely!
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Maybe we have never really thought about this question. When we eat at McDonald's or KFC, and of course when we shop at Walmart or Trust-Mart as well, not only are we taking in junk food that is bad for our health, we have also never asked them for a receipt! If every Chinese person asked for a receipt after dining at McDonald's or KFC, then the taxes the Americans would have to pay to our country would be enough to build lots of aircraft carriers!!! Start with me!
On the eighth day of the war, the McDonald's near my company was still doing booming business. Last night, a comrade on Tiexue called for boycotting American goods and opposing the war. Although his idea was unrealistic, even naive, we all understand how he feels.
It inevitably reminded me of an experience I had at McDonald's a month ago. There were quite a few people in the store. After I paid, I asked for a receipt. The duty manager took out a notebook and asked me to sign my name, saying that because they were now using scratch-lottery receipts, the store required any customer asking for a receipt to sign, to prevent employees from secretly taking receipts for themselves and scratching them. I refused. There is no rule saying you have to sign just to get a receipt. Things got a bit deadlocked. The people behind me in line began urging me on, and a guy with glasses muttered: If you want to win a prize, don't waste our time... I had no choice. I picked up the pen and solemnly signed three characters: Osama bin Laden! （@_@ *_*）
Taking the receipt from the manager's bewildered hands, I tore it up and threw it into the tray. I said: I just don't want Americans stealing China's taxes. Later I found that almost everyone behind me asked for a receipt too, including that guy with glasses. Most of us do not have the habit of asking for receipts. Maybe in a restaurant, when we are seated, we don't mind calling a waiter over to bring us the receipt. But at McDonald's, KFC, Walmart, Carrefour, and so on, we are unwilling to go to the trouble of asking for one. In today's globalized market, we cannot boycott certain things. But if we love our country, we can start with the little things around us. It only costs you a few minutes.
To put it on a bigger scale, we can do the math (if any data is wrong, corrections are welcome).
China's total retail sales of consumer goods last year: 700 billion; food, beverage, and entertainment spending: 600 billion; together 1.3 trillion. Subtract rural consumption, group consumption (paid by the state), and bulk consumption (home appliances and the like that must issue receipts), and there is still about 400 billion in cash circulation. At a tax rate of 5% (the rate for food, beverage, and entertainment is even higher), the tax revenue lost each year is: 20 billion. This includes tax evasion by McDonald's, KFC, Walmart, Carrefour, and so on.
If 10% of people are willing to spend a few extra minutes, we will have 2 billion, enough to build the hull of an aircraft carrier.
If 20% of people are willing to spend a few extra minutes, we will have another 2 billion, enough to fit out the aircraft carrier.
I have already gotten used to asking for receipts. This is the simplest patriotic thing I can do within my ability. Although part of this tax revenue may very likely end up in certain people's pockets, I still believe this is a kind of strength.
There is one kind of place where I do not ask for a receipt: very small snack stalls or grocery shops, because they may very well be run by laid-off workers.
If you support this, please spread it widely!
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我的MSN&E-Mail cn_archer@hotmail.com QQ 56049418
