Congress can kill two birds with one stone when President George W. Bush’s tax cuts expire in December. It can – and should – extend cuts for strapped middle-class families while America digs its way out of recession. It should also let the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 per cent of households expire, as a wide range of economists recommend, to make a sizeable dent in the nation’s unsustainable longer-term budget deficits.
當喬治•W•布希(George W. Bush)總統的減稅政策於12月份到期時，美國國會可以做到「一石二鳥」。在美國努力擺脫衰退之際，它可以——也應該——延長對手頭喫緊的中產家庭的減稅。它還應該像許多經濟學家所建議的，讓針對2%最富裕家庭的減稅措施到期結束，以切實降低美國不可持續的較長期預算赤字。
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