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Duterte urged a stop to anomalous transactions where Chinese-Filipino businessmen fall prey to mulcting by government personnel, particularly those in the Bureau of Customs and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

Consider this: As he presided over the clean-up of the biggest public market and streets, Moreno used his now-familiar colorful language to refer to a syndicate mulcting billions from vendors in exchange for precious space.

Interestingly, as the level of education goes higher, the forms of corruption are done in more 'sophisticated' means, that even those who are the victims of such mulcting believe there is nothing wrong with such schemes.

We just look the other way when we see traffic officers mulcting motorists on the road.

For this reason, mulcting airport and customs personnel can be reported by the public and their concerns acted upon immediately.

He also warned police officers against mulcting motorists in exchange for letting them go.

All are alike in that failure to pay results in shifting the tax load to the shoulders of others less able to pay, and in mulcting the Treasury of the Government's just due.

"Honesty Teams were organised since 2006 purposely to conduct an intensive nationwide campaign against erring PNP personnel engaged in extortion or 'kotong', 'hulidap' or apprehend and extort [operations], mulcting, bribery, and other forms of illegal activities," Sindac said.

When people support mulcting money from A and/or giving it to B, and expose themselves as willing to violate the NAP and engage in coercion to this end, you can be sure that there are some net losers and that others are net gainers.

Moreover, by exploiting the government's use of coercion that prohibits competing media of exchange, they foist their fiat money on an unwitting populace and steal from under their noses, mulcting them of their property in exactly the same manner as the state, right up to the point at which all money has been destroyed.