"And they will see President Obama's higher taxes, more spending,more debt, more government intervention in our economy,in the banks, in the auto industry, in health care and in energy as largely responsible for that lack of job creation,"

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They did it again, even more decisively in World War Two, and that's how we got progressive taxes.

而二次世界大战时，他们毫不犹豫的，再次提高了对富人的征税，这就是累进税的由来。

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Even though decentralized England expands its bureaucracy and collected taxes much more efficiently than across the channel in France, state-making involved more officials there.

即使是在分权的英国 官僚政府也日益扩大,他们比海峡对岸的法国有着更多苛捐杂税,现代国家的形成需要更多的官员

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And if the government didn't provide for the poor as ten percent as you say through taxation, then we would need more money for police to prevent crime and so, either way, there would be more taxes taken away to provide " what you guys call the necessary things that the government provides.

如果政府不能,通过税收来补贴你所提到的10%的穷人，则需要花更多的钱雇警力来防止犯罪,所以，不管怎样，都需要交更多的税,提供你们所说的政府该提供的“必需品。

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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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