Instead of working at an ordinary rate for 40 years, you work like hell for four.

你不再有安稳地工作40年的权力了，取而代之的可能是像地狱一样艰苦的四年。

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Many of the super-rich see virtually all their income as capital gains, and capital gains are taxed at a much lower rate—15 percent—than ordinary income.

实际上，很多超级富豪认为他们的收入来自资本增值，而资本增值收入的税率比普通收入的税率还低，仅为15%。

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And he suggested that a revival in the birth rate across Russia was a sign that ordinary Russians did not share the gloomy pessimism of the Valdai club.

他也提到，俄罗斯出生率的提高也暗示普通俄罗斯民众并没有和瓦尔代俱乐部持有同样悲观的态度。

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They may even have heard this tantalizing detail: With five-year averaging, lump sum retirement payouts are taxed at rates as low as 7.5% , no matter how high a taxpayer's ordinary rate.

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But unlike all of those folks, they are getting paid with this carried interest and paying tax at a lower capital gains rate instead of the usual ordinary income rate.

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The long-term capital gain, however, would be taxed at a low rate, a little more than half your ordinary income rate.

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