首先，来快速的看一下国会上备受关注的提议——减税法案。

First up, a quick check of where things stand with some high-profile proposals in Congress.

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由于我们通过的减税法案，美国人今天收到的支票金额要比过去多。

Thanks to the tax cuts we passed, Americans' pay checks are a little bigger today.

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共和党人表示要么全盘推行，要么全盘否决。他们表示：布什减税法案必须全部得到延续。

It's all or nothing, they say: all the Bush tax cuts must be extended.

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However, that all changed in 2003 with the Jobs and Growth Tax Reconciliation Act of 2003, which cut the rate of taxation of dividends to 15%-- the same rate that capital gains are taxed.

但在2003年这些都变了,2003年颁布的《就业与进一步减税协调法案》,将股利的税率减至15%,与资本收益的征税率相同

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