Here I paused in my fiction to shield my eyes and stanch the arrow-straight tracks clawed down my cheek.

飞箭在我脸上笔直地犁出了一条伤口，我停止了幻想,遮住眼睛，赶忙去止血。

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Now, that seem to me to fit what I saw of experience in the 1980's when Reagan cut taxes and then there was this... they were worried about the climbing deficits So he clawed back some of the tax cuts in TEFRA, that huge tax.

现在看来，这正好符合,政府在20世纪90年代的做法,当年里根决意减税，然后争议四起。,很多人担心财政赤字会由此攀升,他后来颁布了税赋公平与会计责任法案，以追回部分税款。

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