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Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state: 【21】______ it, it would not be possible to pay the soldiers and
Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state: 【21】______ it, it would not be possible to pay the soldiers and
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2010-07-06
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Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state: 【21】______ it, it would not be possible to pay the soldiers and policemen who protect us; 【22】______ the workers in government offices who 【23】______ our health, our food, our water, and all 【24】______ things that we can not do for ourselves. By 【25】______ of taxation, we pay for things that we need as 【26】______ as we need somewhere to live and something to eat.
In most countries, a direct tax on persons, 【27】______ is called income tax, exists. It is arranged in such a way that the poorest people pay 【28】______ , and the percentage of tax grows greater as the tax-payer’s 【29】______ grows. In England, for example, the tax on the 【30】______ people goes up as high as ninety-five percent!
But countries with direct taxation nearly always have 【31】______ taxation too. Many things imported into the country have to pay taxes or"duties". 【32】______ ,it is the men and women who buy the imported things in the shops who really 【33】______ pay the duties, in the 【34】______ of higher prices. In some countries, too, there is a tax 【35】______ things sold in the shops. If the most necessary things are taxed, a lot of money is collected, but the poor people suffer 【36】______ . If unnecessary things like jewels and fur coats are taxed, 【37】______ is obtained, but the tax is fairer, as the 【38】______ l pay it.
Probably this last kind of indirect tax, 【39】______ with a direct on incomes which is low for the poor and high for the rich, is 【40】______ arrangement.
【36】
选项
A、least
B、highly
C、less
D、most
答案
D
解析
这句话是说,“如果连日常必要的东西也要缴税,那么对穷人来说是最不利的(因为他们为了维系日常生活就必需在购买商品的同时缴纳与富人相同的税额,而他们的收入确与富人相差悬殊。)”
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