Women in general, unhappy wives in particular, and men occupying marginal and relatively powerless social positions were the people most likely to become mediums serving the fox spirits.

平凡的妇女，特别是不开心的妻子，以及被边缘化和社会功能弱小的男人更有可能成为狐仙的媒介。

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But substantial evidence supports the more modest proposition that high marginal tax rates discourage people from working to their full potential.

不过，有确切证据表明该理论更谨慎的提议，即高边缘税率会阻止人们以自己的全部潜能来工作。

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Under-funded regulatory agencies will struggle to compete for the most talented graduates and will have only a marginal impact on what those talented young people think is worth learning.

缺乏资助的调控部门将很难获得最优秀的毕业生，而且对才华横溢的年轻人认为值得学习的事情影响也甚微。

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"The benefits in terms of ultimately adding to the safety and security of the American people would be marginal and questionable.

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It's important--that's one reason why we want policies that encourage equality of incomes-- not necessarily equality, but reasonable equality-- because the people with very low wealth have a very high marginal utility of income and people with very high wealth have very little.

这非常重要,我们需要通过政策,来引导收入公平的一个原因就是这个,不是绝对的平等,是相对的平等,因为那些低收入的人群,对收出的边际效应相当的高,而高收入人群的则小得多

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For people with very high incomes, the rise in marginal tax rates would be smaller, but to the extent that itemized deductions rise with income, the loss of those itemized deductions means that the cut in marginal effective tax rates on high income people will be less than the cut in statutory rates.

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These formulas look at the organization as the sole beneficiary of the value created that may be doled out later to the participants in the production process of the good (all the people and resources that contribute to the Marginal cost).

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When Presidents Kennedy and Reagan reduced the top marginal rates, it spurred growth and the upper income people felt better about fairness.

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