The combined rate in the United States and Canada is the second highest in the world.

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Most advanced countries of the world today have a corporate profits tax rate for large corporations of about a third.

现在世界上大多数的发达国家,都征收企业所得税,对大企业来说税率大概是三分之一

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Now, the interest rate in Irving Fisher's world has to equate supply and demand in the market for debt.

在费雪的理论里,利率必须与,债券市场的供需关系保持平衡

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Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.

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The IMF also cut the 2013 world growth rate from 3.9% to 3.6%.

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That is because in the real world the rate cuts will not lose nearly as much revenue as CBO scores.

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