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Bagehot | The shrivelled middle

机译：巴热特| middle的中间

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Two decent British politicians made two perfectly sensible statements this week. First, David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister, refused to rule out cutting the top rate of tax to 40%, which, if affordable, would be reasonable. The British state does not offer high earners anything like Scandinavian-class public services to go with the near-Scandinavian-level tax rates it levies. Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, then promised to end the "non-domicile" regime which for two centuries has allowed an elite group of rich people to pay too little tax. The trouble with these statements, however, was not the message, or the messenger; it was the dismally predictable combination of the two. Imagine if it had been Mr Cameron promising to dismantle the "non-dom" status until recently enjoyed by his party's erstwhile biggest donor, Lord Ashcroft, and still enjoyed by the sorts of metropolitan jet-setters who bid obscene sums of money at Tory fund-raisers to play tennis with him? That would have addressed his party's big reputational failing: its perceived cosiness with the rich. In a deadlocked contest, in which Labour and Tory ratings are entwined in the low 30s, it might even have been a game-changer. Or what if it had been Mr Miliband, the left-wing son of a Marxist intellectual, who reserved his post-electoral right to cut rich people's taxes? Would that have been one in the eye for the many, not the few, who consider the Labour leader anti-business? Hell yeah, as Mr Miliband, in campaign mode, likes to say.
机译：两名体面的英国政治家本周发表了两项完全明智的声明。首先，保守党总理戴维·卡梅伦（David Cameron）拒绝排除将最高税率降低至40％的可能性，如果负担得起的话，这是合理的。英国政府不向高收入者提供像斯堪的纳维亚级别的公共服务那样的高税率。工党领导人埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）随后承诺结束“非居民”政权，这种政权使两个世纪的精英阶层的富人缴纳的税款过少了两个世纪。但是，这些陈述的麻烦不是消息或消息传递者。这是两者令人沮丧的组合。想象一下，直到卡梅伦先生承诺取消“非国家”身份，直到该党的前最大捐助者阿什克罗夫特勋爵最近才享有，并且仍然被那些向托里基金竞标淫秽资金的大都市喷气机爱好者享有-加注者和他一起打网球？那本来可以解决该党在声誉上的重大失败：党对富人的舒适感。在一场陷入僵局的竞赛中，工党和保守党的评分在30年代的低点交织在一起，这甚至可能改变了比赛规则。或者，如果是马克思主义知识分子的左翼儿子米利班德先生保留了他的选举后削减富人税的权利呢？对于那些认为工党领袖反商业的人，而不是少数人来说，这会是一眼吗？是的，就像竞选活动中的米利班德先生所说的那样。

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    《The economist》 |2015年第8933期|54-54|共1页
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