Why would it be wrong in principle to tax the rich to help the poor?

为何向富人征税救济穷人在原则上是错的？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Leviticus 19:33-34: "When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I, the Lord, am your God."

利未记》第19章33-34节的记录如下，若有外人在你们国中，和你同居，就不可欺负他，和你们同居的外人,你们要看他如本地人一样，并要爱他如己，因为你们,在埃及地也作过寄居的，我是耶和华你们的上帝“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

These numbers are so low they could be dismissed as people filling in the wrong things or making jokes or just being confused compared to-- stunningly superstitious high rankings.

这些比例低到,可以把它们当成人们填错表格,或者开玩笑，或者看不懂题目造成的误差,相比于…,那些高得吓人的比例。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I'm going to go there initially, so I can move this over here, so I can get the base part of that over there, I want to put that one there before I put this over here, finally I get to the point where I can move the bottom one over now I've got to be really careful to make sure that I don't cover up the bottom one in the wrong way before I get to the stage where I wish they were posts and there you go.

我要先把其他的放到多余的柱子上，然后把最底下的放到目标柱子上，我要在把除了最底下的圆盘，其他的圆盘挪过来之前,把最下面的圆盘放在这儿,因此我得出了最下面的盘子,应该如何摆放的结论,当我没得到其他盘子的正确摆放位置的时候,要很小心的确认没把错误的盘子,放在最下面的盘子上面。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It turned out to be kind of wrong because in the 1880s they started building so many houses in response to the demand that there was eventually a crash; but somehow people got this idea at some time.

结果证明这错了,因为在19世纪80年代,为迎合需求,他们建造了很多房屋,结果却崩溃了,但不知为何,人们有时就是会突发奇想

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We have to respect persons and if he earned that money fairly without violating anybody else's rights in accordance with the two principles of justice in acquisition and in justice in transfer, then it would be wrong, it would be a form of coercion to take it away.

我们必须要尊重个人,如果他公平地赚到钱,没有侵犯到他人权利,完全遵守了那两条公正原则,最初占有公正原则和转让公正原则，那么向他多征税就是错的，这无异于强取豪夺。

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