Analysts believe the introduction of tax credits to the benefit system since 1999 has dissuaded many from marrying, as they favour single mothers.

分析人士认为，从1999年开始实行的税款抵免福利制度使很多人不愿结婚，这一政策对单身妈妈最为有利。

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It is the system as a whole that needs to be progressive, not every single tax.

是整个税收系统需要采用累进型税收，而不是各项税收皆如此。

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Simultaneously, many countries are getting rid of traditional progressive tax principle — rising the tax rate along with the increasing of revenue, and transferring to single tax system mode.

同时，许多国家都在摆脱传统的累进税收原则，也就是随着收入水平的提高税率不断提高的方式，而转向了单一税制的模式。

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No Republican, not even Ron Paul, is going beyond the status quo to insist that top marginal tax rates must be cut by at least a third (ideally scrapping the current income-tax system altogether and replacing it with a pro-growth, low-single-rate tax system that does not punish saving, investing and entrepreneurial risk-taking as the current progressive income tax does).

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Sensibly, President Putin has thrown out many of these exactions and given Russia a single-rate, flat tax system.

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The Bush Administration's proposed new savings accounts are a step--a remarkably bold one--toward a radical tax change in the U.S. This revolution is moving toward what I and others have long advocated: a flat tax--an income tax system with a single rate that would apply after a high threshold and that would exempt levies on capital gains, dividends and interest.

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