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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Personal incomes are taxed a graduated rates, and we have a tax table which tells you how much tax's required on what amount of money earned.

个人收入是按累进税主征税的。而且我们有一个税率表。告诉你多少收入要征多少税。

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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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Well, we do have a graduated tax system.

嗯，我们有累进税率制度。

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Representative James Garfield, who later became president, called a graduated tax unconstitutional.

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The truly poor could get assistance through a graduated tax.

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If we want to defer tax on all savings as long as possible, we would need to go to a graduated consumption tax.

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