If tax cutting is not a path to automatic prosperity, neither is unconstrained social spending.

如果削减税收不是自发繁荣的途径，不受约束的社会开支同样也不是。

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If it accelerated the region's recovery, the Japanese might then ask themselves: why not make the whole country a low tax, bureaucracy-free zone?

如果这加速经济的恢复，日本到时也许要问问自个儿：为什么不让整个国家都低税率、少官文？

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Two methods are proposed by the commission: a financial-transaction tax (popular, though of questionable use if not done globally) and a European VAT (easy to raise but unpopular).

欧洲委员会提出了两种解决方案：一是征收金融交易税（很受欢迎，但是如果不普遍征收的话那么就会遭人质疑），二是征收欧洲增值税（很容易征收但是不受欢迎）。

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Interestingly, even Obama, who is nothing if not a tax-and-spend liberal and then some, has shunned the label.

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If not for a tax scandal involving Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, who was at Wembley, the season could almost be classified as perfect.

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Mid Devon District Council has no formal policy, but would not accept a cheque if a council tax campaigner did not want them to.

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