In Taiwan, it has been said, the money is as deep as your ankles. But for some time now Taiwan has been up to even higher bodily parts in deep financial doo-doo. It used to be that the government only started tightening its belt at the end of the year, but this year it started getting difficult to make ends meet as early as May.
「台灣錢，淹腳目」，然而曾幾何時，台灣卻已身處債臺高築、財政困難的窘境，以往年底前才開始捉襟見肘的財政，今年竟破天荒在五月間就出現調度吃緊的現象。