【新唐人2012年8月10日讯】辽宁省沈阳市当局以“打假”的名义对商户进行重罚，引发众怒，导致沈阳全城罢市，有关部门连续发消息进行辟谣。批评者质问：谣言传了快1个月了，政府早干嘛去了？评论认为，沈阳罢市风波使中共当局的维稳体制疲态尽显，也暴露出中共在财政吃紧下，不惜横征暴敛。
沈阳当局为明年全运会的经费补缺口，以“打假”为名，大肆敛财，众商户不堪重罚纷纷关门罢市，出现“满城尽是卷帘门”，“比春节还要冷清”的街景。大陆各大微博、论坛等网路空间纷纷议论著沈阳市面上的“大萧条”。
7号，沈阳市有关部门声称，相关部门除正常管理工作外，并未采取集中整治行动，更没采取高额罚款措施。
沈阳市委宣传部在新浪开设的官方微博连发两条微博，说商户关门歇业事件是受社会传言影响。
8号，沈阳工商局再度“辟谣”，说“打假”是为了迎接明年全运会，公安局牵头，工商局配合，达到一定额度，“说公安可以拘留人，所以现在就造成这种情况”。
沈阳相关部门自相矛盾的辟谣方式不但引发了网民的痛批，也让当地商户感到愤怒。
在五爱街商铺打工的小美表示，执法队7月份就开始罚款抓人，现在说是谣言，早干嘛去了？如果他们没有罚款，有可能成千上万家店铺都吓得关门罢市吗？
五爱街商铺工作人员小美：“前天7号的时候，广播说，有人煽动造谣，要求尽快恢复营业，不能营业的就说明原因，吓得大家都开门了，隔壁那个卖五金的外地人，在网上说他被罚了10几万的事，然后昨天（8号）就被警察抓走了。”
沈阳商户告诉《新唐人》，联合执法者走到哪儿罚到哪儿，对商户百般刁难，三证俱全要五证，五证齐了要八证，总之就是罚款，没钱就抓。
“权利运动”组织负责人胡军指出：沈阳当局不顾一切的对商户进行惩罚性的大规模抢钱，暴露出了当局财政出现了大问题。
“权利运动”负责人胡军：“以前经济是靠房地产刺激，政府主导型的一种方式能够往前运行，现在来说房地产发生问题以后，财政吃紧，他会加强对平民百姓的掠夺，这时矛盾就会被激化出来，就发生老百姓开始说话了。”
实际上除了沈阳之外，前段时间江苏省无锡有政府部门发不出工资；山东有政府部门卖公车增加财政收入，还有薄熙来案揭开的重庆几千亿的地方债务，这些都反映了中共当局财政吃紧。
胡军认为，“维稳费用”的攀升，中共各地官员不断搜刮民脂民膏做“政绩工程”，将导致中共走向解体。
胡军：“我们看到的罢市话，以后再往下推还会更加剧烈，244我们现在看到的是商户的，下面看到的肯定是工厂的工人，工厂将会停工，将会更多人的走上街头，罢工之类的，很快都会发生，为什么会出现这个问题？因为中共本身它这个体制就是一种掠夺式的经济体系。”
北京师范大学MBA导师，经济专栏作家、经济学学者段绍译指出，目前中共的财政问题，沈阳仅是一个缩影，各地地方都因财政吃紧，在绞尽脑汁盘剥百姓。
经济专栏作家段绍译：“县级财政就是很多地方都是负债累累，有一点，地级市财政负担也很重，主要是因为现在这个政府太大了，它的这个开资庞大，使这个按正常的税收不能满足他们财政的需要。”
胡军指出，以后类似沈阳全城罢工的事件会更多，现在沈阳当局是怕影响明年举办全运会才暂停抢钱，相信它不会停止对老百姓横征暴敛。
采访编辑/李韵 后制/君卓
Shenyang City Government Grabs Money from Local Businesses Suggests Serious Financial Problems
Shenyang city government in Liaoning province
has recently charged local businesses with heavy fines.
The fines were claimed to be
“cracking down on counterfeit goods”.
This move outraged the public
and led to a strike throughout the city.
Authorities tried to define this news
as rumors by making several announcements.
Critics have questioned why the government has
not done anything until one month after “rumors” spread.
Commentators said that the incident has not only
revealed the tired condition of the Chinese Communist Party “maintaining stability.”
It also shows the fact that the CCP began to extort excessive
money from Chinese citizens to handle financial difficulties.
To raise funds for the National Games in 2013, Shenyang
government has recklessly charged local businesses
in the name of “cracking down on counterfeit goods”.
Being unable to afford these heavy fines,
a lot of shops were forced to close.
Closed roller shutter doors could
be seen everywhere in the city.
The streets looked more desolate
than on Chinese New Year Eve.
This “recession” phenomenon has been widely discussed
on most online forums and microblogging sites in China.
On August 7, Shenyang government claimed that the
authorities only worked regularly during the last month.
They had never taken measures
to give out a lot of excessive fines.
The Shenyang CCP committee propaganda department
consequently wrote two messages on its official microblog.
It claimed that the incident was triggered
by widespread “rumors” in the city.
However, on August 8, the city’s industry and commerce
department said that
it had cooperated with the Public Security Bureau
in the movement of “cracking down counterfeit goods”, in preparation for the National Games.
If the fine exceeded a critical value,” the business owner
could be arrested, which has led to the current situation”.
Contradictive statements between two governmental
agencies have induced heavy criticism from netizens.
It has outraged local businesses as well.
‘Xiaomei’, an employee at Wu Ai market, said that in July,
law enforcement officers started fining and arresting people.
She questioned why the government
only refuted “rumors” once it was too late.
If there were no excessive fines, why
were thousands of shops forced to close?
‘Xiaomei’:”On August 7, it was announced on the radio
that someone spread rumors to instigate the strikes.
All the shops were required to be open, otherwise
the owner needed to explain the reason they were closed.
After this intimidation, most shops opened again.
In addition, non-local owners of a neighborhood
hardware store were arrested on August 8.
This is because he wrote a post online revealing
that he was charged more than a 100,000 Yuan.”
Some business owners told NTD that law-enforcement
officers charged fines wherever they went.
They purposely embarrassed business
owners by making absurd inspections.
In an example, they asked for 5 licenses if you had 3,
and asked for 8 if you had 5.
In one word, they wanted to charge fines by whatever
means, and arrest owners if there was no money to grab.
Hu Jun, Chairman of the Human
Rights Movement commented.
The Shenyang government tried to grab
money from businesses at all costs.
This suggests serious problems
in its financial budget.
Hu Jun: “Years ago, economic development
mainly depended on the real estate industry.
The government could support this model by its power.
After this model fails to work, the government will try
to extort money from civilians to solve financial problems.
The conflict between the CCP and Chinese people will
intensify and the public will speak out against the CCP.”
Aside from Shenyang, the city government of Wuxi,
Jiangsu Province, failed to pay employees some time ago.
Some governmental agencies in Shandong
had to sell cars to make more money.
Investigation into Bo Xilai’s case also revealed local debts
as much as hundreds of billion of Yuan in Chongqing.
All these facts reflect how critical
the CCP’s financial problems are.
Hu Jun believes that increases in “maintaining stability
expenses” and “image projects” supported by money
exploited from civilians by CCP officials will finally
lead to the CCP’s disintegration.
Hu Jun: “Similar strikes will intensify in the future.
This strike came from the business owners.
Next we will see strikes from workers
and the factories will stop working.
More civilians will make street protests.
This will come very soon. Why should all this happen?
It is because the CCP regime determines that it has
to grab money to sustain its economic system.”
Duan Shaoyi, economics journalist and MBA Advisor
at Beijing Normal University commented.
The incident in Shenyang was only
an snapshot of the bigger picture.
In fact, most local governments are exploiting civilians
by all means to deal with their financial difficulties.
Duan Shaoyi: “Many local governments
are in huge debts at the county-level.
The financial burden over city-level governments is also
very heavy because of the magnitude of overstaffing.
Expenses are too large to be supported
by regular income from tax.”
Hu Jun further remarks that more strikes
similar to this one could break out.
Although the Shenyang government temporarily
suspended fines to avoid negative effects
on the forthcoming National Games,
it will never really stop extorting money from civilians.
