The tax hike stands an excellent chance of reducing per capita sales of cigarettes by four percent.

增税很有可能使香烟的人均销量减少4%。

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That would be the functional equivalent of imposing a tax hike on already hard-pressed middle class workers.

这与向业已不堪重负的中产阶级工人征收高税收是功能对等的。

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Obama is also pushing for a big tax hike on corporations, but the burden of that will also fall on working families.

奥巴马还准备大幅增加企业税，但是最终的负担却需要普通家庭来承担。

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Middle-class Americans would have had been dealt a blow through an automatic tax hike.

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Obama is cleverly avoiding specifics, largely because the potential tax hike could be enormous.

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Making people pay what they already owe under current law doesn't count as a tax hike.

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