Next, the reporter found a store owner running a small gas station and grocery store, a shrewd-looking middle-aged man.
"Boss, is it true that under the new management, your business has benefited quite a bit?"
The store owner rubbed his hands, his face full of smiles, obviously happy to cooperate: "Absolutely, absolutely! Before? Before, just paying protection fees to various gangs nearly bankrupted me! State taxes, federal taxes, and expensive insurance; fuel prices changed three times a day, it was impossible to make any money."
At this point, he even expertly pulled out two folders in front of the camera, spreading them out on the counter.
One was old, with a Star-Spangled Banner sticker on it, the other new, with a Mexican eagle emblem on it.
"Look, this is the bill from the same period last year." He pointed to the documents in the old folder,
"Electricity fees, taxes, fuel supply costs, my God, it was a complete mess, the profits were negligible, and now look!"
