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Reinforcements
An employee checks bottles of 75 percent alcohol at Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corp’s (TTL) Long Tien Distillery in Tainan yesterday. The distillery started to produce 300ml bottles of 75 percent alcohol, with a daily capacity of 120,000 bottles, following a surge in COVID-19 infections. The firm plans to increase daily capacity to 200,000 in two weeks.
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Notes from central Taiwan: Taiwan: Island of bosses
Want to understand why Taiwan’s birth rate is not going to improve? Look at the big bosses who keep wages down, drive housing prices up and demand that their taxes remain low
By Michael Turton / Contributing reporter
The media reported this week on another government stimulus program to make the birth rate rise. Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said that the budget for the government’s programs would reach NT$85 billion (US$3.05 billion) by 2023, and said that the government’s monthly subsidy for child support would rise from NT$3,500 to NT$5,000.
These measures are a well-meaning attempt to address Taiwan’s globally low fertility and birth rates, but they are rather like poking a heart attack victim with a stick in the hope of reviving him.