Manila had filed the complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) citing double standards in Thailand's taxation, which set too high a tax rate on cigarette imports from the Philippines.

马尼拉向世界贸易组织(WTO)提起了诉讼，指控泰国采用双重标准的税收，它对从菲律宾进口的卷烟设定了过高的税率。

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Recall what Obama Sr. said in his 1965 paper: There is no tax rate too high, and even a 100% rate is justified under certain circumstances.

回忆一下1965年，老奥巴马在他的论文里写过的话：根本没有过高的税率，在某些情况下，即便100%的税收也是合理的。

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Fat-cat moves that can get you in trouble with the AMT nowadays include having too many children or living in a high-tax state (since state and local taxes are not deductible under the AMT).

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"We have too high a domestic rate and we have a thoroughly uncompetitive international tax regime, " Mr. Cutler said on CNBC in January.

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It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the tax rates.

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