蔡吉源
一個標準庄腳囝仔出身的台灣人。
從二水國小、彰商、彰中、台大、紐約州立大學、約翰霍浦金斯大學，一路艱辛的求學過程，展現堅毅的意志和刻苦耐勞的精神。
回國後進入中央研究院從事財政研究，先後提出驚動學術界的財經改革建議。
目前退休，專心研究法理論述，仍然關心台灣的未來。
此部落格將與大家分享這一生的研究報告與心得。
1946年出生於臺灣彰化二水
國立臺灣大學經濟學士（1969）
國立臺灣大學經濟研究所（1973）
美國紐約州立大學經濟學碩士（1978）
約翰霍浦金斯大學經濟學博士候選人（1987）
美國台灣政府臨時總統(2013-)
中國(兆豐)產物保險公司官股董事（1998-2012）
中國(兆豐)產物保險公司官股董事（1998-2012）
Autobiography
Chi-yuan, Tsai
I was born on October 24, 1946 in a poor farming family in Ershui,
Changhua. My sisters paid tuitions for my education in Changhua Commercial
School and High School during 1959-62 and 1962-65, and, National Taiwan
University (Department of Economics) during 1965-69. I, then, became research
assistant to Professor Teng-Hui Lee, while I enrolled into graduate study at
NTU during 1970-73. I was lucky to write
MA thesis with Professor Lee and have
learned very much under his supervision. In 1976, Fulbright-Hays Study Grants
of the State Department of USA made it possible for me to study abroad. I got
another financial supports from National Science Council (NSC) to study at
Johns Hopkins University in 1984. My major field is public finance in which
economics theory and political decision making are integrated.
In 1979, I took a position
at Academia Sinica to do research. My first publication “Taxes and Residential Choice”
(PUBLIC CHOICE, Vol.38, March 1981, PP.55-72) made me popular among Taiwan
economists. Subsequently, I proposed to abolish Taiwan Provincial Government
(1981), to relax centralized finance regulation (1981), to reform indirect tax
system (1984), to give up Sun Yat-Sen’s ideology and reformulate land tax
system (1989), to have income taxation integration (1996) and to cut off 50% of
land value increment tax (LVIT) for rescuing banking and construction
industries (1998). Most of my researches were policy implications for the
purpose of TH Lee’s economic and political reforms.
Economic researches
interest me very much. Besides, I had to pay very much attention to Lee’s political
leadership during Lee Administration of the Republic of China, i.e., the
Governing Authorities on Taiwan (GAT) according to Taiwan Relations Act of the
United States of America (USA). As a result, I took a part to push forward
Lee’s political reform too.
In 1999, I was invited to
be the Director of Finance Department of Tao-Yuan County Government by Annette
Lu after she heard one of my public speeches in criticizing seriously the very
wrongdoing intergovernmental finance relationships. This job provided me a good
opportunity to thoroughly understand how much money were wasted by corruption
and in what extent the officials and businessmen formulate their collusion, and
how the KMT manipulate the political power to collect political rents from
Taiwanese in the past years.
It is easier to do something bad than to do something good. Taiwan
owned modernized political culture before 1945, but it was replaced by Chinese
dictatorship and collective corruptions afterwards. Both political dictatorship
and economic corruption are strongly depending on public finance system. I,
then, played a part in economic reforms in my past days by doing public finance
researches. But I was not encouraged by the existing KMT academic system. Then
I retired from my research job in 2009 and began to study International Laws
and the Laws of War with Richard Hartzell who is an American and loves Taiwan
very much. I was elected as the Prime Minister in November 2010 to be one of
the leaders of Taiwan Civil Government (TCG), and the PM of Taiwan Government
i.e., TGUSA, on April 29, 2013; and Provisional Vice President of Taiwan
Government, i.e., Taiwan Autonomy, in July 2015 and Provisional President on
June 22, 2016 by the Provisional Congress, Taiwan Government. Our purposes are:
to follow up Article 73 of the Charter of United Nations to ask the Federal
Government of the United States of America to expel injustice ROC government-in-exile
out of Formosa and the Pescadores; to let the inhabitants of Formosa and the Pescadores
to have the paramount rights to self-governing; and to wipe out Chinese factors
from Taiwan; according to Article 15 of Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) which
enacted by the Congress of the Federal Government of USA and come into effective
since early 1979.
