yes, you can buy an apartment in the New Territories for about HK$1,500,000, but you don't own the l ...
tofu 發表於 2010-4-29 19:33
I am not talking about the quality of the apartments at the Olympics village. I am talking about the availability of social housing here. They cut the amount of social housing at the Olympics village.
In Hong Kong, they are increasing public housing.
Here, they charge you a lot of tax and HST, still the governments are in debt and the school boards have deficit so they need to reduce the number of school days.
hk is not increasing public housing. they are start to rebuild the public housing. and our high quality public housing program was never been stopped.
people pay much less tax in hk and they enjoy close to none benefit as well. pay for pre school programs, pay for books, almost 50 people in each class, limited seats for special needed students. no free hot lunch. senior needs to pay full price for mtr. high medical expense. like a joke ui, welfare & senior supplement. teacher responsible for selling lunch package. and more. there is no free lunch, if you want to enjoy the benefits, you need to pay too.
you are not talking about the quality of the public housings, but i am. why don't we compare the completed finish apartment which include the basic electric to the unfinished apartment in hk.
hk is not increasing public housing. they are start to rebuild the public housing. and our high qu ...
tofu 發表於 2010-4-30 22:38
wow, I can't believe you mixed up 公屋 and 居屋 in Hong Kong.
Here, how does the government pay for all these benefits? By borrowing money of course. Debt at all levels of government. Sooner or later here will be like Greece, Japan and some other European countries, i.e go bankrupt.
發表於 2010-4-30 05:25
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