Brian Q. Webb
In response to the global economic slowdown, Taiwan will be taking a page out of Japan’s economic playbook and issuing spending vouchers to its citizens in the amount of NT$3600 starting in mid-January. My wife will get one because she’s Taiwanese. My kids will get one because they have dual Taiwanese and American citizenship. I probably won’t.
I’ve lived here for almost 10 years and I pay my taxes from which this voucher money is coming, but I won’t benefit. In fact, before I got married my tax rate was almost 2x that of Taiwanese citizens (20% compared to ~10% for local workers). In other words, foreign workers who contribute twice as much of their income then Taiwanese do to Taiwan will receive no benefit from this plan. 
Of course, the fair way would be to simply offer the vouchers to anyone who paid their taxes last year…but the Taiwanese government has too many “Nationalist Bigots” embedded in the Legislature. On a more positive note, there are some advocate groups trying to help.
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