Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German.

那些在第二次世界大战后给我们占德军队寄包裹并在上面注明“礼物”以逃避税款的普通公民，根本没有费心去发现“礼物”在德语中是“毒药”的意思。

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And, because of tax breaks on interest payments (from which all companies, private or public, benefit), the growth of debt finance erodes the tax base.

而且，因为破产税在于股份收益，债务金融的增长正在腐蚀税收系统的基本。

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In your private household, you would surely prefer to pay less for more rather than the other way around, yet that would be termed an "unfavorable balance of payments" in foreign trade.

从个人角度看，你当然是喜欢付出更少，得到更多了，但这种行为在自由贸易中会被冠以“国际收支逆差”的大帽子。

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In a free society, private payments should be covered by merchant-customer privilege just as attorney-client privilege covers confidential legal communication.

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But with the addition of a clever piece of code called Zerocoin, it could still fulfill that dream of truly private payments.

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The ProPublica report does not distinguish between rare private payments for genuinely pernicious activities--like payola, which is already a serious crime--and those that finance crucial activities, like education and laboratory work.

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