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The article Wealth taxes often failed in Europe in Time on Nov 3rd 2019, mentions that in 1990, 12 affluent nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development had wealth taxes； today it’s down to three. The failed attempts share three distinctive, preventable flaws. First,Europe tolerates tax competition. A tax-averse Parisian just needs to move to Brussels to become immediately free from taxation in France. What’s more, E.U. member states don’t try to tax their nationals living abroad. Europeans also tolerated tax evasion to a foolish degree.

最新一期的美國(guó)《時(shí)代》周刊題為《財(cái)富稅在歐洲行不通》的文章提到，1990年，經(jīng)合組織中有12個(gè)富裕國(guó)家實(shí)行了財(cái)富稅，如今僅剩3個(gè)。這9個(gè)國(guó)家之所以廢棄財(cái)富稅，那是因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)趫?zhí)行過程中面臨3個(gè)明顯、本可以預(yù)防的共同問題。首先，歐洲容忍“稅斗”。巴黎人只需搬到布魯塞爾就立馬無需繳納法國(guó)的稅了。此外，歐盟成員國(guó)對(duì)居住在國(guó)外的國(guó)民免征財(cái)富稅。最后，歐洲人容忍避稅到了愚蠢的地步。

The article with the title saying The White House resorts to character assassination in Washingtonpost on Nov 1st, 2019, mentioned that unable to answer the mounting evidence that President Trump abused his office to advance his reelection campaign, the White House is resorting to character assassination. The attempt to sully Mr. Taylor’s reputation,and that of other government servants who have testified in the Ukraine affair, is ludicrous — and vile.

2019年11月1日的《華盛頓郵報(bào)》一篇題為《白宮大玩人身攻擊》的文章稱，針對(duì)越來越多的證據(jù)表明特朗普濫用職權(quán)來推進(jìn)他的連任競(jìng)選活動(dòng)，白宮對(duì)此不僅無法回應(yīng)，還對(duì)那些敢于仗義執(zhí)言的公務(wù)員進(jìn)行人身攻擊。白宮企圖毀壞包括泰勒在內(nèi)的那些在烏克蘭事件中作證的公務(wù)員名聲的做法真可謂是既可笑又卑鄙。