Barack Obama last week put forward a package of tax increases to pay for a proposed $447bn jobs programme. The most controversial proposal is that no one making more than $1m a year should pay a smaller share of his income in taxes than a middle class family pays. This is popularly called the Buffett Rule, after the billionaire Warren Buffett, who has long complained that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, and famously came out in public recently asking to pay more.
美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)上週提出一項增稅方案，以解決擬議中的4470億美元就業促進計劃的資金問題。這個方案中最具爭議的一項提議是，任何一個年收入100萬美元以上的人所繳稅款佔其收入的比例都不應低於一個中產階級家庭。人們普遍將該法案以億萬富翁華倫•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)命名，稱之爲「巴菲特規則」( Buffett Rule)。巴菲特早就抱怨稱自己的稅率比他的祕書還低，最近更是公開要求增稅。
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