<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fjsolwmv</author><text>Do you believe that friends of the Chinese government in power are all being property held accountable for taxes? Chinese government inner party has over 100 billionaires, by some coincidence.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;china-parliament-billionaires.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;china-parliament...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>&lt;i&gt;After expressing “deep shame and sorrow,” she admitted to years of underreporting her earnings, through the practice of “yin and yang” contracts, in which a smaller contract is disclosed but a larger one is paid to the star. She was ordered to pay a hundred and thirty million dollars in back taxes and penalties. Her actions amounted not only to a personal misstep, she wrote, but to a betrayal of China.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find myself agreeing with the confession:  if you illegally evade $100 million of taxes by lying about the amount you are paid, you are betraying your country.   While the Chinese approach to prosecution seems open to abuse, the outcome here seems actually seems reasonable: the actress pays substantial penalties but goes on being an actress,  tax evasion is not condoned, and rule of law is upheld.&lt;p&gt;By contrast, the outcomes of the US system often seem perverse: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;d...&lt;/a&gt;.   This is an in-depth NYT article showing how the current president seems to have used similar illegal maneuvers to avoid paying many millions of inheritance taxes.   The outcome seems to be that if you have enough money, you win, and the ordinary taxpayer loses.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star, and the Interpol Chief, Vanish?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-did-chinas-biggest-movie-star-and-the-interpol-chief-vanish</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>The issue behind this event is not tax evasion, which would not make headlines or HN, and we have no way of knowing if she indeed evaded taxes. All we know is that the Chinese government has the power to kidnap people and coerce them into saying whatever the government wants.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>&lt;i&gt;After expressing “deep shame and sorrow,” she admitted to years of underreporting her earnings, through the practice of “yin and yang” contracts, in which a smaller contract is disclosed but a larger one is paid to the star. She was ordered to pay a hundred and thirty million dollars in back taxes and penalties. Her actions amounted not only to a personal misstep, she wrote, but to a betrayal of China.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find myself agreeing with the confession:  if you illegally evade $100 million of taxes by lying about the amount you are paid, you are betraying your country.   While the Chinese approach to prosecution seems open to abuse, the outcome here seems actually seems reasonable: the actress pays substantial penalties but goes on being an actress,  tax evasion is not condoned, and rule of law is upheld.&lt;p&gt;By contrast, the outcomes of the US system often seem perverse: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;d...&lt;/a&gt;.   This is an in-depth NYT article showing how the current president seems to have used similar illegal maneuvers to avoid paying many millions of inheritance taxes.   The outcome seems to be that if you have enough money, you win, and the ordinary taxpayer loses.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star, and the Interpol Chief, Vanish?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-did-chinas-biggest-movie-star-and-the-interpol-chief-vanish</url></story>