QUESTION FROM ERIK DONNELLA: Would you explain a little bit about why a federal sales tax is a bad idea, and what the social value is of a graduated income tax and progressive taxation scheme?

埃里克.多内拉的问题：您能否解释一下为什么联邦营业税是个坏主意，以及累进所得税和累进税率方案的社会价值何在？

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Staff members pay a "staff assessment", which is a form of income tax deducted from their gross salary according to a graduated scale.

这是一种从工作人员的薪金毛额中按累进比率扣缴的所得税，是一种固定税收，不允许有任何扣除项。

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Wages and other related income are taxable at graduated rates and are also subject to withholding tax.

工资及其他有关收入都要按等级税率纳税，而且也要从薪金工资中预扣。

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He split the difference and instituted the first graduated income tax, raised inheritance and business taxes, and sold war bonds and other instruments, like the three-cent Victory Stamp signed by Wilson that's on display here.

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We demand a graduated income tax.

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The decline, he says, began with the Progressive era of the early twentieth century, in particular with the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, when both the Federal Reserve System and the graduated federal income tax came into existence.

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