Name: 【經濟學人】政府該課「好野人」更多稅嗎？(Should we tax the rich more? | The Economist)
Uploaded: 2018-07-03T03:36:21.000Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s

Everyone depends on hospitals, roads, police and schools

每個人都依賴醫院、道路、警察跟學校

繼續提供高品質的公共服務呢？

Why has pressure on public services increased?

為什麼公共服務的壓力遽增呢？

working people are going to have to pay more taxes

the cost of health care is also going to rise.

Basically governments can tax three things,

一般來說，政府可以從三件事情中抽稅

including corporation tax discourage people from working.

包含公司所得稅會降低人們工作誘因

such as the UK tend to have stronger economic growth.

像是英國，傾向有更強大的經濟成長

or value-added tax on purchases in Europe.

who spend more of their income on day-to-day expenses.

因為他們便是一天會花費最多所得的人

比起在所得稅及消費稅上多課稅

This is partly because it places a higher levy

Some economists advocate something called a land value tax

有些經濟學家提倡一個叫地價稅

這基本上是依照你所在土地區域

has very few unintentional bad consequences.

Homeowners, for instance, are gonna be furious

舉例來說，房地產所有人若被要求付高一點的財產稅

if they're asked to pay higher property taxes

but if people want good government services,

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【經濟學人】政府該課「好野人」更多稅嗎？(Should we tax the rich more? | The Economist)