提高税率虽不是件令人愉快的事，但可能是必要的。

Higher taxes may be a necessary evil.

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萨科奇声称他会及时提高税率。

Mr Sarkozy says that he will increase the tax rate in time.

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它通过提高税率适用收入门槛来减少提高税率的影响。

It mitigates the impact of the rate hike by raising the threshold of earnings to which it applies.

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Then they raised it to 5% 5% on incomes over $10,000.

之后，税率被提高到了年收入,超过10000美元部分的。

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