What McCaffery points out is that the only time the government in the United States has ever been able to impose high taxes on wealthy people was during wars.

麦卡弗里指出,美国政府向富有人群征收,高额赋税的情况,仅发生在战争时期。

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Part of being an absolute ruler is being able to levy taxes against those people who have the joy or the extreme misfortune of living in those domains, and more about that later.

绝对统治者的一个权利,就是能向那些领土内的富商巨贾,或是一贫如洗的穷人征收赋税,这个稍后再详说

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