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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The overriding problem is the continuing deficit financing of the federal government.

最重要的问题是联邦政府的持续赤字财政。

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It said the budget deficit will probably be about 1.5%, nearly twice the 0.8% Italy's government has promised its European Union partners.

它表示，预算赤字可能会达到1.5%左右，几乎是意大利政府向欧盟伙伴承诺的0.8%的两倍。

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Ireland's bank bailout and government spending have expanded this year's deficit to more than thirty percent of gross domestic product.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

It seems to me that the government's hands are rather tied becasue the government has very large deficit, and it's running curly from deficits So something like a third of the governments' revenues in income taxes it takes in go through paid interests on its debt.

好像政府现在,能力有限，因为庞大的赤字,政府也还在尽量避免,赤字情况,政府通过收入所得税',拿到的钱中1/3都,要拿去还政府欠债的利息。

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Greece has said it would reduced the government budget deficit from 12.7 percent to 8.7 percent during the next nine months.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The resulting quarter-trillion- dollar government deficit has diverted attention from Bush's sensible tax cuts.

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Unfortunately, such tax cuts would have to be financed by issuing lots of government deficit-financing bonds.

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The two Presidents, however, share one thing in common: They both helped double the government deficit.

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