And neither side will even talk about tax increases, though it is impossible to achieve long-term fiscal stability without them.

尽管离开税收增加不可能取得长期的财政稳定，但是两派都没有谈及增加税收。

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Today, Stockman says America's fiscal imbalances cannot be corrected without a combination of aggressive spending cuts and substantial tax increases.

但斯托克曼说，当今美国的财政失衡问题如果不同时进行积极的削减开支和大幅增加税收的话，是无法得以改善的。

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Unfortunately, the deficit is likely to remain frighteningly large over the next decade without either cuts to those programs or tax increases.

不幸的是，赤字很可能在下一个十年里依然惊人地存在，不会有对于那些税收或增税方面的削减。

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The AMT patch and the Bush tax cuts have been extended without offsetting tax increases or spending cuts, in part justified by the relatively modest budgetary cost of a short-term extension.

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For liberals, it means that, without big unpopular tax increases, government is deeply constrained in its ability to address new challenges.

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According to calculations by the Social Security administration's chief actuary, however, it is possible to transform Social Security fundamentally without resorting to tax increases or benefit cuts if we exercise reasonable restraint on federal spending growth and prudent borrowing to finance the transition to a new system of large personal-retirement accounts.

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