A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity.

简单的消费税，比如说，5%，就可以显著减少国家巨大的政府赤字，而且不损害生产力。

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A Japanese consumption-tax increase in 1997 is still blamed for derailing its recovery.

日本1997年提高消费税的做法至今仍被诟病，认为这妨碍了其恢复。

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There is a question about whether we should try to have a progressive consumption tax.

有一个关于我们是否应该采用累进消费税的问题。

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Equal justice, he tells us, requires equal taxation policy and he seems to be proposing a kind of consumption tax so that the rich, who consume more will have to pay their fair share.

再者，社会公平是建立在等同的税收政策上的,霍布斯还提议征收消费税,如此一来，富人就会因为消费得多，而缴纳相对公平的税收份额。

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One guiding principle is that it is better to tax consumption than income, because taxing what is spent rather than what is earned does less damage to incentives to save.

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The Democrats will argue that there is room for revision: among 23 rich countries which also tax consumption, only four, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand and Norway, do it on food at the full rate.

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While sales taxes are less economically destructive than income taxes, because they tax consumption rather than production, people produce to consume, so those sales taxes still reduce the reward for production, and hence the incentive.

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