In the US election the size of the state is the central, feverishly contested issue. So, too, in the political debate in the UK and Japan, where large overhangs of public sector debt make fiscal retrenchment as much of an imperative as it is in the US. Yet in all three countries a fundamental point is missing from the discussion – namely, that the state is hostage in each case to a corporate sector that poses a huge obstacle to public sector shrinkage.
在美國總統選舉中,政府規模是一個爭議很大的核心問題。在英國和日本的政治辯論中,政府規模也是這樣的一個問題。在這兩個國家,公共部門的巨大債務使得它們必須像美國一樣實行財政緊縮。但上述三個國家的討論中都漏掉了最根本的一點,即在這些國家,政府都已遭到公司部門的劫持,後者對收縮公共部門規模構成了巨大障礙。
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