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Hints:
doling out
loopholes
We can keep doling out corporate welfare to big oil companies - or we could keep investing in the renewable energy that creates jobs and lowers our carbon pollution. Priorities. Choices. That's what this is about. And the stakes for the middle class couldn't be higher. If we don't pick the right priorities now, make the right choices now, we could hinder growth and opportunity for decades, and leave our children with something less. That includes the obsession with cutting just for the sake of cutting. That hasn't helped our economy grow; it's held it back. Remember, our deficits are getting smaller - not bigger. On my watch, they're falling at the fastest pace in 60 years. So that gives us room to fix our long-term debt problems without sticking it to young people, or undermining our bedrock retirement and health security programs, or cutting basic research that helps us grow. Here's the bottom line. Congress should pass a budget that cuts things we don't need, and closes wasteful tax loopholes that don't help create jobs, so that we can free up resources for the things that actually do create jobs and growth.我们可以向大型石油公司继续发放福利，或者我们可以在可再生能源行业继续投资创造就业，降低碳排放污染。什么是当务之急，我们需要抉择。重点也在与此。这对于中产阶级而言其利害关系无比重大。如果我们现在不能选择真正的当务之急，做出正确的选择，我们可能会失去几十年的发展机遇，什么也不能为子孙后代留下。仅仅为了削减而削减只能导致迷惑。这种方式不会为经济带来增长，只会拖后腿。请注意，我们的赤字正在减少--不是增加。据我观察，现在赤字减少的速度是60年来最快的。因此，这为我们解决长期债务问题提供了回旋空间，因而不用把问题留给年轻人，也不会损害我们退休的养老保障和医保计划，也不用终止帮助经济增长的基础研究的投入。底线就是这样。国会应该通过预算，削减我们真正不需要的花销，消除不能创造就业的浪费性的税收漏洞，这样我们才能腾出资源用在真正能创造就业和促进经济增长的领域。 |
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发表于 2016-8-2 13:40:15