Compensation for Electricity: A Debate on Energy Policy
This article explores the controversy surrounding compensation for electricity in Taiwan. The author examines the implications of energy policy decisions on the economy and the environment.
Stan Chen: Five Deficiencies and Six Losses—Is This How We Love Taiwan?
Franz founder Stan Chen cites the Federation of Taiwan Industries' white paper to poignantly point out Taiwan's crisis of 'Five Deficiencies and Six Losses.' Five deficiencies: water shortage, power shortage, labor shortage, land shortage, talent shortage. Six losses: government incompetence, social disorder, legislative dysfunction, economic imbalance, generational loss, and loss of national vision. Chen attributes the primary cause of this crisis to twenty years of biased educational reform and ethnic polarization, which have eroded Taiwan society's traditional Confucian moral values. The author questions whether many people, claiming to 'love Taiwan,' are actually acting immorally and unethically. He calls for Taiwan to pursue not only technological and economic development but also a 4.0 transformation in moral education and cultural thinking to avoid heading toward universal poverty and decline.
Understanding the Service Trade Agreement Truth: The Sunflower Movement's Cheap Justice
Critical analysis of the anti-service trade movement as ideological rather than practical, arguing the agreement represents necessary economic compromise and comparison Taiwan's negotiating position favorably with Hong Kong.
What is Securities Transaction Tax? Why Should We Support the Government's Imposition of Securities Transaction Tax?
The full name of the securities transaction tax is Securities Transaction Income Tax, which mainly taxes the profits from securities transactions. Many people hold polarized opinions about the government's proposed securities transaction tax. Optimists believe that levying this tax could reduce or even eliminate other securities transaction taxes, thus better stimulating the securities market.