Barack Obama last week put forward a package of tax increases to pay for a proposed $447bn jobs programme. The most controversial proposal is that no one making more than $1m a year should pay a smaller share of his income in taxes than a middle class family pays. This is popularly called the Buffett Rule, after the billionaire Warren Buffett, who has long complained that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, and famously came out in public recently asking to pay more.
美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)上周提出一项增税方案，以解决拟议中的4470亿美元就业促进计划的资金问题。这个方案中最具争议的一项提议是，任何一个年收入100万美元以上的人所缴税款占其收入的比例都不应低于一个中产阶级家庭。人们普遍将该法案以亿万富翁沃伦•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)命名，称之为“巴菲特规则”( Buffett Rule)。巴菲特早就抱怨称自己的税率比他的秘书还低，最近更是公开要求增税。
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