It was fitting that Donald Trump was on the way to the Vatican when he came out with his US budget. Only a pope could hear a confession as egregious as President Trump’s fiscal plan. Pope Francis champions “social capitalism”, a philosophy that values each member of society. Mr Trump’s budget would decimate support for America’s poorest to fund a tax bonanza for its wealthiest. His budget achieves balance through numerological voodoo. Rarely has a fiscal document relied on such dark accounting.
美國總統唐納•川普(Donald Trump)在去梵蒂岡的路上推出了他的財政預算提案，這一安排堪稱貼切。也只有教皇才能傾聽像該提案這般駭人的懺悔。教皇方濟各(Pope Francis)支持「社會資本主義」，其理念是尊重社會的每一位成員。而川普的財政預算將大幅減少對美國最貧窮人羣的支持，以便爲針對最富裕人羣的減稅買單。他的預算僅靠數字巫術實現平衡。很少有哪份財政檔案是建立在這樣的暗箱會計手法之上的。
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