A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
税
Tax
We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.
我们应该停止争论这个城镇的减税问题。
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
世界上最难理解的是所得税。
On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.
在与税收有关的问题上,你并不总是用一个声音说话。
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
他对税法了如指掌,就像教皇对主祷文一样。
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
纳税与讨人喜悦,如同爱人与智慧,都不是给人的。
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
税收改革意味着,‘不要向你征税,不要向我征税。向树后的那个家伙征税。”
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
为一个阶级的利益向社会征税不是保护,而是掠夺。
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
每一种税收或税率,从一个不情愿的人身上强行征收,都是不道德和压迫性的。
Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.
税率不应该在所有的等级中提高,而在某些等级中提高。
Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.
更高的所得税就像一把剃刀,随时可能落在繁荣的光秃秃的脖子上。
If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
如果你不控制开支,最终你将面临大幅增税。
A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
税收漏洞是对另一方有利的东西。如果对你有利,那就是税收改革。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.
我来自古巴。税收对我来说不是什么大事。
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
我永远不会支持对中等收入者增税,永远……如果你不打算消除漏洞和豁免,那么我不支持降低税率。
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
当征收所得税时,正义的人会对同样的收入多缴一些,而不正义的人会少缴一些。
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
涉及这些信用卡的身份盗窃是一种日益增长的白领犯罪形式,为非法移民、银行和会计欺诈、逃税以及其他不法活动提供便利。
What we need is fundamental tax reform.
我们需要的是根本性的税收改革。