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Re:Half of China's millionaires want to leave country by cma on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @06:47PM (#3218115)
>Technically the state still owns your apartment and you were just paying for "usage fee" because that's how communism/socialism works.

The fee part sounds like something other than communism.

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Re:Half of China's millionaires want to leave country by angkec on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @06:59PM (#3218157)
I know! And it's ridiculously high, beats any property tax in U.S. That's probably one of the reason why the Chinese government is so rich.

The propaganda has invented a new saying, calling this the Chinese Socialism, and it tries to credit itself for the economic boom after the 1980s. We the people think that the gov is just trying to collect massive money after they abandoned soviet communism so everyone had a chance to make a better life. The chance is getting slimmer as the gov is getting much more greedy than in the 80s.

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