美国的联邦预算赤字仍未得以控制,每年仅庞大的军事开支便超过了5000亿美元。为此,美国的公共服务被大量削减。在这样的经济背景下,美国国会给民众带来的却是一项涉及金额高达700亿美元的减税法案。由非党派的两大研究机构(Brookings Institution和Urban Institute)联合创立的税收政策中心(Tax Policy Center)指出,此次减税旨在降低资本收益和股息的税率。据预测,87%的税 The federal budget deficit in the United States has still to be controlled. Each year, the huge military expenditures exceed 500 billion U.S. dollars. To this end, the United States public service has been greatly reduced. In such an economic context, what the U.S. Congress has brought to the people is a tax relief bill that amounts to up to 70 billion U.S. dollars. The Tax Policy Center, co-founded by the non-partisan research institutes Brookings Institution and Urban Institute, said the tax cuts aim to reduce the tax on capital gains and dividends. It is estimated that 87% of the tax