The public-works minister José Blanco, a Socialist heavyweight, floated the idea of higher taxes for big earners during the summer, but the prime minister firmly squashed it.

今夏，工社党重量级人物、公共工程部长布兰科就曾提出对富人征加重税，但遭到首相断然拒绝。

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Only one notable unpleasantness marked Samoa's politics in Malietoa's time, the murder of a minister of public works in 1999, allegedly to prevent him from revealing the details of a corruption scandal.

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