They want to include a reduction of the income tax rate on unearned income from 70 per cent to the 50 per cent top rate on earned income.

他们希望削减所得税率。将非劳动收入税率从高于劳动收入的70%降到50%。

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We might consider, for example, extending the earned income tax credit all the way up through the middle class, and paying for it with a tax on carbon.

我们可能认为，一路对中产阶级中所获薪水的实施税务扣除，用对碳收税加以平衡。

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For example, if we had a tax on income and the pay that you got for working, we tax 100% of every dollar that you earned or every yuan that you earned, how much taxes do you think we would collect?

比如说，如果我们征收劳动所得税，对你所赚取的每一美元或每一人民币征收100%的税的话，最终的税收总额会是多少呢？

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My hunch is that at current tax levels, a higher tax on earned income, and perhaps dividends would increase the tax take but by much less than the percentage increase in the tax rates.

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When we first read the fairly short section covering the Medicare surtax on unearned income, we found it to be pretty straightforward and assumed all unearned income, loss and expense would be summarized and taxed just like the self-employment tax on earned income is summarized and taxed, now.

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Their central estimate is that the taxable income elasticity for this group is 0.46, which implies a revenue-maximizing tax rate on earned income of 56%.29 This in turn (accounting for NICs and indirect taxes) corresponds to an income tax rate of 40%.

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