Chapter 240: Go with the flow

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"...Except for the usual agricultural tax collection, he issued the "Guidelines for Reducing the Burden of Farmers" through television and the "Guidelines for Reducing the Burden of Farmers" that was issued without permission from the organization, it is strictly prohibited from all townships to share or share agricultural specialty taxes and slaughter taxes. All types of coordination shall not exceed 12% of the per capita income of farmers in Hulin County last year, that is, 151.4 yuan. If the cumulative coordination exceeds 152 yuan, the levyed farmers may refuse to pay according to law."

During the Spring Festival, most members of the Standing Committee took vacation. After listening to Cao Weixin's report, Liu Dongchuan, who realized the seriousness of the problem, immediately held the first *** office meeting after the Lunar New Year.

Liu Dongchuan's face turned pale and sat there without saying a word. Deputy Wang, who was in charge of the party, the masses and ideology, smoked cigarettes one by one. Deputy Du kept recording in the notebook, for fear of a slight omission. Ran's reaction was strange, and he actually regarded the mobile phone as a computer and kept calculating what.

Seeing that everyone had no reaction, Cao Weixin coughed twice, looked at the report in his hand, and then introduced: "According to his calculations, the average tax and fee for Hulin farmers this year will be controlled at the level of 225 yuan. This means that in addition to agricultural tax, blood prevention fundraising, Luoshan Pump Station fundraising, labor costs, water and electricity costs, joint production costs, livestock and poultry epidemic prevention costs, and agricultural comprehensive development supporting fees will not be collected.

In addition, he also explicitly canceled the education outlet: technical clothing fee, extracurricular homework of the Education Commission, summer homework, winter homework, primary school natural education, middle school students' world, primary school students' world, education coordination fee, donation money, teacher training fee, office fee, newspaper information fee, teaching award, personal insurance fee, physical examination fee, epidemic prevention fee, greening fee, etc.

As well as household registration rectification fees, house license fees, and public security fees collected by the police station to rural areas beyond the standard; legal service fees collected by the door exceeding the standard, "three-five" legal publicity fees collected by the family planning department beyond the standard; gynecological examination fees collected by the fishery administration department, surface value-added fees collected beyond the standard, etc. At the same time, there are clear provisions for unplanned birth fines, gynecological examination fees, certificate application fees, etc..”

The grassroots charge random fees and levy deputy Wang, who was airborne from the provincial party committee, had heard of it, but he never thought that there were so many taxes and fees with a coincidence. Cao Weixin just finished speaking, while extinguishing the cigarettes, looking around at everyone, and couldn't help saying: "So many taxes, it seems that the county and township governments are busy collecting taxes."

Liu Dongchuan sighed, nodded slightly, and said helplessly: "Although it is a bit incredible, it is still the same. To be honest, they are now in charge of the three things: tax collection, family planning and social stability. But they still can't manage these three things."

Du *** put down the paper and pen, with a worried expression on his face, and said solemnly: "In the 1980s, there were less than fifteen administrative cadres in a township, only three or four financial and taxation personnel, and there were only two or three industrial and commercial offices, judicial offices, and police stations. At that time, there were few people who ate imperial grain, and the burden on farmers was light. The burden on ordinary people for a total of more than ten yuan for a mu of land.

Until 1992, the burden of a mu of land did not exceed 30 yuan. But what now? The burden of a mu of land had exceeded 200 yuan. It was still not enough and was in debt. Now, cadres, teachers and cadres working outside of the township, totaling at least 2,000 yuan. They want to eat farmers themselves, their children want to eat farmers, and the team of farmers grew stronger year by year, and the county and township institutions were bloated... How can farmers increase their income if they have to raise so many people? How can farmers not be heavy?"

"Has the Discipline Inspection Commission received a report in this regard?" Liu Dongchuan was stunned and couldn't help asking.

"There are at least two trucks in the report, both of which have become common phenomena. Some of them are historical problems. There are only a few people in the Discipline Inspection Commission. How do you check it?"

Cao Weixin was still very cautious about this issue of big troubles. Seeing that it attracted the high attention of Liu Dongchuan and others, he immediately opened the notebook and continued: "Tian Wenjian did do some work and grasped various data very accurately.

In the county-wide burden reduction work conference, he took Sanmen Township as an example, saying that there were 361 people who ate the financial meal at the same level in this township, including 165 teachers, 64 township government administrative personnel, 44 agriculture, forestry and water institutions, 33 cultural, sports and broadcast institutions, 30 people in the health system, 21 people in the finance office, and 4 people in the civil affairs system.

Before I came back, I sent someone to verify it, and it was basically true. Judging from this set of data, the bloated organization and the number of people who eat it is an important reason why the township-level finances are not enough to make ends meet.

After being silent for a long time, Ran suddenly raised his head and said coldly: "The fiscal revenue is not enough, so he forced the cadres below to try their best to find money. They just took a few points: add a little, borrow a little, sell a little, and owe a little! Add a little, increase the burden on farmers; borrow a little, borrow a little, or even borrow a loan shark; ask for a little, and ask for money from the higher authorities; sell a little, and sell a little, and sell a little, and don't pay back the debt."

Seeing Ren Ran open his mouth, Cao Weixin suddenly changed his tone and said extremely sternly: "Comrade Ren Ran, but you should also understand that all rural problems, including the heavy burden on farmers, are the result of years of accumulation and a comprehensive reflection of the many contradictions in national economic and social development. The country is in the transition period of reform and opening up, and there are too many various problems and too complex.

Taking the example of the heavy burden of farmers, the reasons for the heavy burden of farmers are extremely complicated, which makes ordinary people feel like blind people touching an elephant: there are huge institutions and reasons for over-the-top people; there are reasons for management chaos and corruption; there are reasons for unsmooth fiscal system; there are reasons for poor circulation system; there are reasons for illegal law enforcement and abuse of punishment; there are reasons for insufficient agricultural investment and weak foundation; there are reasons for not implementing agricultural protection policies; there are deep-seated reasons inherent in the economic and social system; there are reasons for too concentrated power and poor democratic supervision; there are reasons for farmers themselves...

The bloated organization is indeed the main reason, but since I started working, the central government has been emphasizing streamlining of institutions and personnel. However, it has never broken out of the vicious circle of 'liquid → expansion → re-simplification → expansion'. To put it in disgusting, the problem of expansion of institutions and personnel seems to have become an incurable disease."

Cao Weixin's attitude is very clear, that is, stability overwhelms everything. Once he raises the sword to simplify the government, it will cause endless trouble.

The official who is in a state of iron, can't always stay in his current position. Why doesn't Liu Dongchuan want to stabilize the situation in front of him and leave these messy things to the next officer? But the problem is that County Magistrate Tian will not give him this opportunity, but holds the glass of Southern Technology in his left hand and the glass of farmers reducing their burden in his right hand, forcing you to drink as you want, and you have to drink as you don't drink.

Thinking of the investment inspection team that Chen Hongjun, chairman of Jiangtian Group, just sent to him in the morning, and thinking about the person standing behind him, Liu Dongchuan realized that "I don't burn incense in normal times, and I have to look for Lao Zhang if I have something to do" would definitely not work. If you want General Qiao's son, Deputy Director Qiao, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, to help him, you have to do something real.

"Comrades, now we are calling for a reduction in burden every year, but the burden increases year by year; the first half of the year is reduced, and the second half of the year really increases. Although governments at all levels repeatedly make a fuss about this issue, the county and township cadres at the county and township levels always hold a lucky mentality for reducing the burden on farmers, believing that a gust of reform is the gust of wind, and this gust of wind is over, and what will happen in the future."

After Liu Dongchuan paused, he continued: "The people are also skeptical of us, thinking that when will the officials count? It would be good not to add the burden on the masses. How dare you expect officials to really reduce the burden.

It is precisely because of this kind of irresponsible attitude that there are policies above and countermeasures below; there are irresponsible attitudes that cannot be implemented, and many policies are difficult to implement, and even the prestige of the Party Committee and the government has disappeared. The people all say: "The scriptures are good, but the key is that the monk who crooked the scriptures wrongly recited them!"

I think it is right. Some time ago, I found out that there were two cadres in Panshan who were sentenced according to law for corruption and misappropriation. However, they still retain their party status, pay their wages as usual, and enjoy the treatment of cadres as usual. The impact is very bad! Why does this situation cause?

The fundamental reason is that there is insufficient supervision and poor punishment! In my opinion, the problem lies below, but the responsibility lies above. In a sense, the violations of discipline by rural cadres are "forced" by the top, pretending to be honest and being corrupt officials below, which is the fundamental reason why "officials and officials protect each other and lawless"!"

Liu Dongchuan became more and more excited as he spoke. He knocked down the cup in front of him without even realizing it, with a stern expression on his face.

"Where is Hulin? Hulin is an old area that has made great contributions to the New China. Comrade Restoration and Renran were later, and failed to catch up with the last time General Qiao of the Central Advisory Committee. He stayed in Hulin for six days and traveled to twelve townships. Before leaving, he bowed to Runze and other county party committee leaders, saying that our power was given by the people, just like this land, life is born and reproduced. Once life leaves the land, it will be unsafe day and night, no matter how much sweat and blood you have ever thrown on this land... "

After Liu Dongchuan paused, he continued: "He also said that in 33 years, General Chen ordered him to expand the reds here. He was the director of the Political Department of the Independent Regiment and was responsible for the expansion of the reds. At that time, the people of Hulin County had just made great sacrifices to fight the "encirclement and suppression", and the blood was not yet dried. The leaders of the county party committee took the lead in sending their relatives to the army.

Under the leadership of the county party committee, in just three months, the people of Hulin sent their 1,000 outstanding children to join the army. How many of these thousand people have returned? How many are alive? How many have become senior cadres? The mother of Hulin County, after nearly 20 years of war, has received only one lieutenant certificate, but they have no complaints. That is because they saw that the county party committee leaders made the same sacrifice as them... "

Du***'s surprised expression flashed and thought for a while, then suddenly said lightly: "Liang Shuming paid the price for the farmers' speeches, and Peng Dehuai paid the price for the farmers' speeches. Now he also has to pay a certain price for the farmers' speeches."

Cao Weixin was stunned, then reacted, with a worried expression on his face and said impatiently: "Zhao***, it's not a day since the freezing is frozen. Rural problems are piled up, and farmers' burdens are heavy and difficult to return. It will take at least three to five years to find a solution. Let's study it first."

Just when Liu Dongchuan was surprised by Liu Dongchuan's reaction, Liu Dongchuan suddenly turned aright and said in an extremely serious manner: "Some problems can be put on hold for the time being, but some problems are urgent. It is too difficult for the people of Hulin. They live at the bottom of society, and many cultural products belittle them to a point of value.

But they endured humiliation and supported the entire country and nation, and used the net income of 100 acres of land to support a state cadre, but went out to work and make a living. Many grassroots cadres even suffered various humiliations to complete various taxes and fees, but their wages were not settled, so they took their blank slips to go home for the New Year.

As an official, it is better to go home to sell sweet potatoes than to be an official. Even the emperors of feudal society knew that after the disaster, they would be exempted from taxes for several years to recuperate, but we charged them various taxes and fees after the once-in-a-century flood. Don’t you feel ironic? Is this representing the interests of the general public?"

Seeing that Liu Dongchuan had made up his mind, Cao Weixin couldn't object directly. After thinking about it, he couldn't help asking: "Then what aspect are you going to start? You must know that this is not a trivial matter. If you really mess it up, it will be a big mess."

Liu Dongchuan weighed the pros and conscientiously said, "The problem lies in Hulin County, so let Hulin take a step forward. The province has a poverty alleviation fund. Let's strive to use that amount to deduct Hulin's provincial and municipal coordination this year. At the same time, Hulin is designated as a pilot project for tax and fee reform in our city in 1999. We will promote it if we have experience and results, and we will summarize if we have problems."

I have to admit that this is really a solution with the best of both worlds. After all, County Magistrate Tian is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp. Since he made this move, he must have prepared a backup plan. Otherwise, he would never dare to fan the flames everywhere and say something to the people. ""The central government has given you a weapon, you don't need it, who will you blame? If you don't save yourself, who will save you?"

What's more, things have come to this point. Instead of going back on their word and causing various tax-resistance incidents, it is better to go with the flow and give the next explanation to the top and the other party.

Thinking of this, Du*** nodded slightly and said lightly: "Thousands of cadres are not kidding. They came in through various ways, and they all thought that they were the best people in life and the best people in death. They were determined to follow the Party's revolution to the end. There is no May 7th Cadre School now, and if they are not arranged well, they will have big problems."

At this time, Ren Ran suddenly raised his phone, pointed to a string of numbers on it, and said with a wry smile: "Everyone, I roughly estimated that if the tax is based on 25% of the average income of Hulin farmers last year, the three-level finances of Hulin County, township and villages will have at least a gap of 1.6 billion. You should know that although the village cadres did not eat financial food, they were also burdened by farmers, and this number was very large."

How could Liu Dongchuan not know about this? Seeing everyone staring at him in unison, he put down the teacup in his hand and said calmly: "In fact, the problem is more serious than this. If it is a good accident, it will take less than three days for many towns in Hulin to become paralyzed."

"Why?" Deputy Wang was shocked with an incredible expression on his face.

Before Liu Dongchuan could speak, Cao Weixin explained with a wry smile: "In terms of tax collection, the city forces the county, the county forces the village, and the village forces the village, just like family planning, they always reject it. They cannot collect money from the people, and the tasks must be completed. Many townships and administrative villages borrow usury loans and then slowly collect them.

The common people abandoned the land and abandoned it, and many coordinations could not be collected at all. Year after year, day after day. The profits were profitable, and the interest was generated. The borrowing was not paid off, and new debts were borrowed, and the east and west walls were broken down. Once the creditors realized the problem, it would be strange if they did not block the door of the township government."

If the township is paralyzed, it means that the ruling foundation is gone. Deputy Wang realized the seriousness of the problem and asked quickly: "How much does the finances at the county and village levels owed?"

"I don't know, but I think there are at least 200 million or 300 million."

The city can squeeze for 20 to 30 million yuan. For Deputy Wang, 20 to 30 million yuan is an astronomical figure. Seeing that Liu Dongchuan was determined to poke the hornet's nest, Deputy Wang couldn't help asking: "Liu ***, why don't we report to the provincial party committee first?"

"It's okay to report it." Liu Dongchuan sighed with a helpless expression on his face.

At this time, Du *** leaned into his ear and said with a smile: "Old Wang, I dare to bet with you that the opinions of the province are exactly the same as those of Liu ***."

He lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and vomited light green smoke. Shi Potian said in shock: "I also add some bets. The betting provincial party committee will not only ask us not to deal with Tian Wenjian for the time being, but also suggest that the Longjiang Municipal Party Committee retain his position as deputy to Hulin County Party Committee."

Liu Dongchuan rubbed his temples and said expressionlessly: "Heaven can still forgive evils, but he can't survive if he does it. Everyone must be responsible for what he does, and this is all his own fault."

Not dealing with it for the time being does not mean that it will not be dealt with in the future. Retaining the party position of the deputy *** of the county party committee does not mean that the matter is over. Such bad behaviors that are not disciplined and put the party committee and government in trouble will sooner or later settle the accounts in the fall.

Cao Weixin understood and immediately regretted it: "Stability overwhelms everything, it seems that I was not considering this morning."

"Comrade Reform, don't say that. If it were me, I would have made the same decision." Liu Dongchuan turned around, stared at Ren Ran's eyes, and then said: "Comrade Ren Ran, the situation in Hulin is very dangerous. It's not OK to have an old comrade who is familiar with rural work. I want to compare Zhao Runze and Li Zhiqiang, what do you think?"

Now that he is in charge of industry, the affairs of the development zone are basically handed over to Li Zhiqiang. This means that the value of the director of the development zone management committee is not comparable to that of the Hulin County Party Committee, where two bombs are sitting under his butt.

Faced with Liu Dongchuan's open conspiracy, he still had no power to fight back. After all, the disaster was caused by his own people, so it was necessary to wipe his butt. At the same time, Li Zhiqiang is indeed a leading cadre familiar with rural work, and he must support both public and private.

"I have no objection."

After thinking about it, Liu Dongchuan finally expressed his opinion. Liu Dongchuan nodded with satisfaction, then turned around and continued: "Comrade Weixin, Tian Wenjian, the acting county magistrate, obviously cannot be replaced. How about letting Duan Cheng, deputy county party committee, serve as the candidate for county magistrate?"

Tian Wenjian is a worry-free man, and Li Zhiqiang is not a fuel-efficient lamp. If he was ordered to serve as the Hulin County Party Committee in the face of danger, the Municipal Party Committee would definitely give him great power. Since he wanted to reduce the burden, he would have to clear out the personnel drastically. Cao Weixin did not think Duan Cheng was reliable. If he was beaten by Li Zhiqiang for one reason or another, it would undoubtedly be shooting himself in the foot.

Seeing everyone staring at him, Cao Weixin weighed the pros and cons, and said thoughtfully: "The work of reducing burdens is difficult. The more difficult it is, the more we cannot be disturbed by the outside world. I think at this critical period, both the municipal party committee and the municipal government must spare no effort to support Comrade Li Zhiqiang's work. The county party committee and county magistrate are shouldering the party and government. If it really doesn't work, he can serve as the chairman of the *** Standing Committee and must establish sufficient authority, otherwise it will be difficult to implement the intention of reducing burdens of the municipal party committee and government."

"I have no objection." Deputy Wang, a good-looking gentleman, was afraid of something wrong. Seeing that Cao Weixin was talking so seriously, he nodded heavily and expressed his support.

"If the provincial party committee has no other instructions, Hulin's affairs will be settled." Liu Dongchuan stood up and walked outside, while saying expressionlessly: "As for Tian Wenjian... let him stay in the hospital and continue to recuperate, and then deal with it after the impact is eliminated."

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