One principle of taxation, called the benefits principle, states that people should pay taxes based on the benefits they receive from government services.

一项被称为福利原则的税收法则规定人们应该根据他们从政府服务中获得的福利来缴税。

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This government depends on the wishes of a few who are remote from the people.

这个政府按照那几个疏远群众之人的愿望行事。

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People that are addicted to drugs get, er, help from the government one way or another.

那些吸毒上瘾的人，呃，通过某种方式获得政府的帮助。

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But he also said the government must be willing to spend extra money to prevent people from starving.

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I think it's kind of equivalent to say because I have more money, I have resources that can save people's lives, is it not okay for the government to take that from me?

我认为这相当于是说,因为我有很多钱，握有足够的资源拯救他人，这样政府从我这拿走钱，就是可以的吗？

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And these people--this is kind of boring-- but these people were in government between 1830 and 1848, and King Louis-Philippe, who was chased from the throne in February of 1848, was seen as progressive, he was seen as the bourgeois monarch but he was perfectly noble.

这些人有点乏味,他们在1830年到1848年执政,国王是路易·菲利普,他在1848年二月被王室追捕,他被视为进取者,被视为资产阶级的君主,但他完全是个贵族

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The recovery comes from the people, not from the government.

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In fact, we heard today that another moderate cleric, a very senior moderate cleric in the southern city of Kandahar was gunned down, and this is apparently part of a tactic that's intended to warn people off from cooperating with the government of President Hamid Karzai, warn people off from cooperating with the United States and NATO troops who are here.

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Mr. ADBUL SALAM ROCKETI (Former Taliban Commander): (Through translator) If it keeps going like this, or if the government does not have success, then people will come away from the government and the support for the enemies of the government will become more.

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