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税
Taxes
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由,就是让贫困成为他们的选择,说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.
我不赞成在经济衰退时期增税,尤其是在创造就业机会的问题上,我们迫切需要重新开始创造就业机会。
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
我反对任何个人税收,除非我们废除所有违宪的机构,我怀疑在那之后我们就不需要征税了。
There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.
我可以肯定地告诉你,缅因大街上没有恢复的迹象。在这样的经济中,我们不需要提高任何人的税收。
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
在战争的发展过程中,出现了一系列不可预见的情况,人类的智慧无法估计其结局;只有一件事是肯定的,那就是增税。
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.
税收增长的关键是税收改革,它能堵住漏洞,促进增长。随着经济的增长,这就是收入增长的来源,而不是更高的税收。
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
没有人愿意付更高的税。但是你想让你的孩子接受良好的教育吗?你必须为此付出代价。你想为老年人提供医疗保险吗?我做的事。我们必须为此付出代价。
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
几乎所有的教育支出都应被视为资本支出,不论其将来的回报是增加应税收入,还是提高生活质量。
I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
我认为需要有一种方式让人们接受教育,如果他们已经纳税,他们已经在这里生活了很长时间。我认为,实际上,我们需要考虑的是,年轻人并没有决定是否来这里。
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
为了解决社会保障问题,我们必须对它进行重组,这样我们才能继续为我们国家即将退休的老年人提供保障,同时允许年轻的纳税人将他们的一部分社会保障税投资到私人账户中。
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It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.
正是商业创造了就业机会、收入和税收,使一个国家得以继续运转。
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
罪的工价就是死亡,但当税被除去的时候,那只是一种疲惫的感觉。
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
如果我们增加开支,我们就必须提高税收或任何措施的结合。
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
精力、进取心和节俭的回报是税收。
I am for lowering taxes.
我赞成减税。
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
在这个世界上,除了死亡和税收,没有什么是可以肯定的。