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Abolishing the estate-tax Recently, about 120 wealthy Americans had signed an appeal to oppose abolishing the estate-tax. Presid
Abolishing the estate-tax Recently, about 120 wealthy Americans had signed an appeal to oppose abolishing the estate-tax. Presid
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2009-06-15
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Abolishing the estate-tax
Recently, about 120 wealthy Americans had signed an appeal to oppose abolishing the estate-tax. President Bush has included abolishing estate-tax in his $1.6 trillion taxcut proposal. Normally when "dozens" of Americans join in a political activity, it is not particularly noteworthy, but in this case the dozens include: George Soros, a billionaire financier; Warren Buffett, an investor listed as America’s fourth-richest person; the philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr.; and William Gates Sr., a Seattle lawyer and father of America’s richest man, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates.
It was really refreshing to see Buffett and George Soros and a number of other extremely wealthy celebrities stand up in opposition to President Bush’s proposed abolishment of estate tax. While the policy has some emotional attractions—it would protect the inheritors of some small businesses from having to sell the companies to pay taxes, and it is true that most people have been taxed on their savings once already—in practice the tax abolishment would mainly be an extra for a very small number of very, very rich people.
Buffett and his company cite these factors in their appeal calling for opposition to the estate-tax abolishment. They also discuss something that’s equally emotional and far more complex; the principle of meritocracy. The idea that everyone in America has an equal chance, that our fates are not determined by accidents of birth, is one of our core values. And nowhere is this principle more respected than in the technology economy; entrepreneurship almost by definition expresses the principle of meritocracy.
The applicants argue that abolishing the tax, in the long run, will result in either increased taxes or cuts to Medicare, Social Security, environmental protection and other government programs.
Abolishing the estate-tax "would enrich the heirs of America’s millionaires and billionaires, while hurting families who struggle to make ends meet," the appeal says.
An old commercial says: "He made his money in the old-fashioned way: He earned it." There was a perfect parody of the ad in which the line read: "He made his money in the old-fashioned way: He inherited it." In 20 or 50 or 100 years. Which of these lines will be right? Buffet and Soros and their friends, to their credit, want to help make the first one real. Let’s hope this is only one step in that process.
选项
A、120 wealthy Americans
B、dozens of Americans
C、President Bush
D、the extremely wealthy celebrities
答案
C
解析
文章开头第二句指出“在布什总统1.6万亿美元的减税计划中,包括了废除遗产税”。
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