Whether they are called Stimulus Vouchers or Triple Stimulus Vouchers, they are essentially the government withdrawing 3,000 TWD from your tax revenue and giving you an opportunity to pay 1,000 TWD to ransom it back.
If you pay the money, you actually gain 2,000 TWD worth of “restricted use” tokens.
If you don’t pay the ransom, your 3,000 TWD won’t turn back into your tax money; instead, it will be renamed and diverted elsewhere.
So, this year, you have actually been forced to pay 4,000 TWD in taxes…
It’s just that 3,000 TWD of what was originally your infrastructure budget has been diverted by the DPP government into the hands of small and medium-sized enterprises, while also helping to save the DPP’s ugly governance figures.
Some “Green-brains” (DPP supporters) might sourly say, “If you don’t like it, don’t take it.” Don’t worry, those Green-brains are just genuine fools.
And then those “Awakened Youth” Green-brains, who usually love to “hate the rich,” are now “happily taking their own money to buy their own money” to give to exploitative bosses…
Moreover, to oppose the KMT’s previous “Consumption Vouchers,” the Awakened Youth Green-brains 🦠 discovered that the original name was actually “Economic Stimulus Consumption Vouchers.” Thus, they repeatedly renamed the stimulus vouchers designed by Audrey Tang to “Triple Stimulus Vouchers.”
This is the true meaning of the Stimulus Vouchers (Triple Stimulus Vouchers). It’s like the joke about feeding monkeys bananas “three in the morning and four in the evening” (Zhaosanmusi). The government is the feeder, and we are the monkeys—specifically, gleeful monkeys.