Actually the City of Corinth wouldn't have been taxed because it was a Roman colony, and one of the benefits of being a Roman colony is that you didn't have to pay taxes, or at least the citizens didn't have to pay taxes.

事实上科林斯城以前从不收税,因为它是罗马的殖民地，成为罗马殖民地的一个好处是,不必交税，或者至少公民不用付。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

.. And they might take -- And I will. I mean, I don't have the decision right now of whether or not to pay taxes.

他们就可能会-,我会是少数派，这下我就无权决定是否要缴税了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

During the war the government needs resources; it's in trouble; it raises taxes to try to pay for the war but then it finds it unable to collect taxes well.

在战争期间，政府需要资源；,它处于困境之中；,它通过提高税收来为战争支付开销,但是它又会发现自己不能够很好的得到税收资金。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And nobody knows, nobody believes that we can cut spending, right? -Somebody down the road has to pay the bills Somebody down the road has to pay the bills, either by cutting spending, cutting benefits or raising taxes.

而几乎没人相信,政府能够成功节流，不是吗？，-那总得,有人来埋单啊,迟早要有人来为此埋单的，要么精简政府开支，削减福利，要么增税。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

If you want to go live in the state of nature, that's fine, but you can't take anything from the government because by the government's terms, which are the only terms under which you can enter the agreement, say that you have to pay taxes to take those things.

如果你想生活在自然状态下，没问题，但你就不能享受任何政府福利了,因为根据政府组建条款，也是我们同意组建政府的唯一条款，规定只有你缴税了才能享受那些福利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You want, if you are setting up an organization to hold real estate, you want to do it, if you can, as a DPP because you don't want to pay those taxes.

如果你要成立一个组织,来持有商业房产,那么你就尽可能选择DPP的形式,因为这样你就不需要支付利润税了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选