A more efficient tax would be a tax on producers of food, based on the difference between the cost of the ingredients before processing and the price for the finished product.

更有效的税收方式应是以食品成分在加工前的成本与食物成品价格之差为税基对食品生产商课税。

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The lower price is based on NASA's estimate of the cost for transporting a shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to a major airport, and for displaying it indoors in a climate-controlled building.

低廉的价格是建立在NASA的估价上的，这些估价包括把航天飞机从肯尼迪航天中心运输到一个主飞机场，还有将其展示在一个气候可控制的建筑中。

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Taxes and price controls make a gallon of gasoline in Japan currently cost about $5.20, twice America’s more market-based prices.

税收和价格的调控使日本现在每加仑汽油要5.2美元，相当于美国市场定价的两倍。

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Objective Analysis continues to call for depressed pricing through the first half of 2013, but the industry has moved from its cyclical phase of price collapse to a phase of cost-based pricing, which could result in continuing mild month-to-month growth for the interim.

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The six states with the highest current per-gallon charges--California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Michigan and Indiana--all levy taxes based on a percentage of the price of gasoline, meaning when the cost of gas goes up, the state's tax take per gallon goes up too.

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