来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第11集 第11集》

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  any money at all, since basically wealthy people
  因为富人基本不交税
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  didn't pay taxes, and that's why--it's a very
  这是为什么
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  regressive tax, it's like a huge sales tax,
  这是个税率递减的税 像销售税
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  and France is nothing if it's not full of regressive taxes,
  法国没有税率递减的税就不存在了
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  since the value-added tax is twenty-one percent,
  增值税是百分之二十一
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  and on electronics and stuff like that it's thirty-three percent.
  电子商品税是百分之三十四
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  So, you're taxed on what you buy,
  所以对你买的东西征税
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  and since poor people have less
  穷人买东西钱更少
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  money to buy things it really is totally unfair.
  这很不公平
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  But the origins of this system is in the octroi,
  这个系统来自城墙
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  and this is one of those actually fairly rare photos that I know of,
  这是我所知的稀有的照片
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  of what it was like in your sort of diligence, your coach here.
  它像勤奋一作