Although many of Hillsdale's students came from wealthy households, by the late 1990s average test scores were sliding and it had earned the unaffectionate nickname "Hillsjail".

尽管希尔斯代尔的许多学生来自富裕家庭，但在1990年代末，学生考试平均成绩下滑，这让它获得了看似无情的绰号“希尔斯监狱”。

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Many tycoons live in the wealthy ghetto of Rublyovskoye Shosse, near Putin's dacha on the edge of Moscow.

许多大亨们都住在莫斯科郊区普京别墅附近的卢布廖夫富人区。

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This week President Obama said the obvious: that wealthy Americans, many of whom pay remarkably little in taxes, should bear part of the cost of reducing the long-run budget deficit.

本周，奥巴马统统说了显然易见的事情：美国富人的中许多人交纳的税收少的惊人，所以应该承担削减长期预算得部分成本负担。

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There is a good deal of popular anger at bankers and traders who are widely seen as having taken too many risks with other people's money and at the wealthy, who stand accused of using tax havens to shelter their money.

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Therefore many of the wealthy could reduce their tax burdens all the way to zero.

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South Florida presents a challenging social environment where financial scamming is epidemic and many of the wealthy have histories of, shall we say questionable dealings.

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Because in the old system, while the top tax rate was 50%, many of the wealthy paid closer to an effective tax rate of 20% because of all the loopholes.

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