A VAT would impose taxes on everybody.

一个增值税将会增加每个人赋税。

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Mr Obama, for his part, promised in 2008 not to raise taxes on the middle class; a VAT would impose taxes on everybody.

奥巴马，在2008年的时候，承诺不对中产阶级增加税收负担，增值税呢，却是对大家都征收。

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The United States, China, Russia, India and many other countries are opposed and say the bloc cannot impose taxes on flights outside its own airspace.

美国﹑中国﹑俄罗斯﹑印度以及其它许多国家都对该做法持反对态度，因为欧盟无权向其空域以外的航班征税。

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What McCaffery points out is that the only time the government in the United States has ever been able to impose high taxes on wealthy people was during wars.

麦卡弗里指出,美国政府向富有人群征收,高额赋税的情况,仅发生在战争时期。

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Many colonists worried that the attempts to impose taxes would only get worse.

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No wonder these pampered people are so quick to impose taxes on others when they have no idea of what these levies mean.

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But David Johnson, from the US embassy, said states should not impose taxes on diplomatic residents under the terms of the Vienna Convention.

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