But it would slam other tobacco smokers, chewers and puffers who've been a favorite tax target for states to balance budgets and, in the name of good health, discourage tobacco use.
但它会冲击其他烟草吸食者、吸食嚼烟的人和使用鼻烟的人,他们一直是各州为了平衡预算而以良好的健康和阻止使用烟草为名首选的征税目标。
Most of the fifty states are required to balance their budgets. Most are now facing deficits.
五十个州中的大多数要求平衡他们的预算,许多州面临财政赤字。
The recession was the trigger but not the cause of the current malaise, which stems, as Fitch put it when explaining its downgrade, from “the state’s continued inability” to balance its budgets.
经济衰退是导火索,而不是引发当前混乱的源头,惠誉国际在解释降级一事时说过,当前的混乱是源于加州长期无法平衡其预算。
Researchers from the Pew Charitable Trusts recently looked at how thirteen American cities are trying to balance budgets in a time of recession.
VOA: special.2009.07.13
"Unlike the federal government, our states have to balance their budgets, and they can't print more money to pay for programs they can't afford,".
VOA: standard.2009.10.10
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