Are you saying that taxing Michael Jordan, say, at a 33 percent tax rate for good causes to feed the hungry is theft?

你是说按33%的税率向乔丹征税,来支持公益事业，解决温饱是盗窃行为吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And all of a sudden, I moved from being a professor here, which previously had been my greatest opportunity, to leading this very large non-for-profit organization that had both national and international responsibilities.

所以突然间，我从普林斯顿的教授，这曾经是我最大的机遇，变成了这个公益组织的领导者,负有国内和国际的双重责任。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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To require him to pay, let's say, a third of his earnings to the government to support good causes like food and health care and housing and education for the poor, that's coercion, that's unjust.

假设，让他拿出三分之一的收入,交给政府来支持公益事业,为穷人提供食物，医疗保障，住房和教育，这就是强迫，是不公平的。

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