Officials declined to borrow against next year's state aid, they refused to trim extracurricular activities and they did not consider seeking a smaller—perhaps more acceptable—tax increase.

官员们拒绝借用下一年度的国家补助金，拒绝削减课外活动，也没有考虑寻求一个更低的（也许是更易接受的）税收增长。

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There have been larger one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007 liable to a tax increase.

其他国家一年来的（销售额）降幅更大：德国由于税收增加，2007年的销售额下降了9%。

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The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business.

税收的增长预示着这项生意的终结。

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0% That's right. That's the point at which you are getting to the top 10% of the US tax payers.- Yeah And only after that, does the scale increase.

没错，只有美国纳税人的前,才需要捐赠这么多。，-是的,在这之后，捐款率才会增加。

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