2012職稱英語考試《綜合類》完形填空訓(xùn)練題(6)

　　Reform on the Road

　　Will the reform on the use of government cars really reduce office expenditure on his count? There are no reports indicating such an outcome although some local governments have moved in that direction.

　　Hangzhou government launched its reform last month. Officials below the level of deputy bureau chief cannot use official trips for business trips.

　　Instead they get subsidies between 300 and 2,600 yuan a month according to their administrative rank. This reform is supposed to save the government the money involving in maintaining a large number of cars.

　　Hangzhou in east China Zhejiang province is not the first to attempt such a eform. Nanjing, capital of the neighboring Jiangsu province, did so five years ago, yet there is no report available of how much money the Nanjing government has saved by these measures. All that we know about is the fact that government officials get monthly subsidies for business from www.yingyukaoshi.com

　　The public have a fight to asking for transparency on the results of such reform because it is taxpayers' money that is being spent. Transparency is needed because people are skeptical about policy-makers making policy against their own interests.

　　Obviously, the subsidies are not based on work needs. Lower level officials usually travel more than high-ranking officials. Therefore, the impact of reform appears to be diluted.

　　Transparency alone can tell us whether the reform measures have indeed reduced government transport expenditure. If there is no disclosure of amounts saved by the reform, the public may have reason to suspect that the reform is actually a poly to increase the income of officials in the form of a transport subsidy.

　　The way government cars are used needs to be reformed. The government spending on purchase of cars was 80 billion yuan in 2008, and use and maintenance amounts to around 300 billion yuan a year.

　　A study of ancient Chinese dynasties shows that the more reforms of the tax system, the heavier the taxes eventually levied on subjects.

　　The only way to prevent this vicious cycles from happening with government car reform today is for the higher authorities to have a strict and transparent audit of local finance.