Unfortunately the Democratic majority in Congress is embracing a national energy tax that will lead to even higher energy prices and massive job losses for the American people,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

You have a progressive tax system that takes more money from the wealthier people and you have a welfare system that looks at individual hardship and pays out.

我们有随富有程度加重税负的,累进税制,还有关注个体并进行再分配支出的,福利制度。

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Wealthy people have the choice of getting around the corporate profits tax.

富人则可以选择,逃避公司所得税

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He said the government will also make it easier for people to save their federal tax refunds, with an option for depositing the money into their retirement accounts.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Now, most of you will say someone that wealthy surely we can tax them to meet the pressing needs of people who lack in education or lack enough to eat or lack decent housing.

你们很多人会说,这么有钱的人，我们当然可以向他收税,以满足那些得不到教育,缺乏食物或者无家可归者的迫切需求。

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It's on Twitter and Facebook. Jonathan Tench, Oxfam's parliamentary officer "You've had thousands of people sign up to support the Robin Hood Tax and talk about it on Twitter.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 made DPPs much less valuable to investors, and so a lot of wealthy people switched from DPPs to REITs.

986年的税制改革法案,使得DPP对投资者不再那么有价值,所以很多富人从DPP转向REITs

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There is a good deal of popular anger at bankers and traders who are widely seen as having taken too many risks with other people's money and at the wealthy, who stand accused of using tax havens to shelter their money.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

People would invest in buildings solely for tax purposes because you could write off the depreciation on the building, so people were cynically setting up DPPs as tax shelters only.

人们可以仅仅为了避税而投资一幢大楼,因为你可以对大楼计提折旧,注,计提的折旧可以抵扣税前收益从而减少应交税金 所以讽刺的是DPP仅被当做了避税工具

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