 And the president and parliament voted to raise some taxes. Fairly reasonable, too. But people went crazy. Riots in the streets. Sent in fires. The cops opened fire. Six people dead. And they said, all right, never mind. Never mind. We'll just do crazy cuts instead. Part of the problem is that they took out enormous infrastructure loans from China. This is China's One Belt, One Road initiative, which people still mistranslate as Belt and Road.