昨天我推出了一份削减政府赤字4万亿美元的计划。

Yesterday I laid out a plan to cut $4 trillion from our deficit.

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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。

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

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最重要的问题是联邦政府的持续赤字财政。

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

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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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