China to crack down on rich flouting one-child rule

[bananas]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091500296.html

China to crack down on rich flouting one-child rule

Reuters
Saturday, September 15, 2007; 3:13 AM

BEIJING (Reuters) - Rich Chinese people who flout the country's family planning policies, which usually limit couples to one child, will face higher fines under tougher new enforcement guidelines, state media said on Saturday.

The China Daily said the move to assess fines in line with the violator's income came in response to widespread concern that current fines did not serve as enough of a deterrent to the well-off, essentially allowing them to treat the fines as a fee for having more than one child.

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China credits family planning laws with preventing 400 million births and thereby boosting prosperity in a country that now has 1.3 billion people, a fifth of the world's total.

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Hunan had discovered earlier that nearly 2,000 officials and celebrities had breached the policy between 2000 and 2005, including a lawmaker who had four children by four mistresses.

[The2ndWheel]

1. How will this not be fun?

[hogwyld]

2. With China's shining human rights record

We should be happy that they don't execute violators on the spot. Now there's a draconian population scheme...