不过，在实行税收体系弹性以抵消可能只是暂时性的收入浮动之前，一个社会要想找到自己是公民社会的强有力的证据，很有可能会被打倒。

But a society would want compelling evidence that the social contract had been torn up before flexing the tax system to offset what may turn out to be only temporary fluctuations in relative incomes.

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而实质上，这一制度的价值远不止此，在更深层次上它是作为防止公民的私法冲突上升为国家冲突的一种弹性机制而存在的。

But essentially, this system is worth far more than that, in deeper than that for which it is used as a flexible mechanism that prevents conflicts of citizen of private law rose to national conflicts.

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