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Although it was intended to punish the rich, in reality it wound up punishing the very people who voted for it, the poor and middle class.
稅收的初衷是懲罰有錢人，而現實卻是它懲罰了對它投贊同票的中產階級和窮人。
“Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew,” said rich dad.
“政府一旦嘗到了錢的滋味，它的胃口就變大了。”富爸爸說。
“Your dad and I are exactly opposite. He’s a government bureaucrat, and I am a capitalist.
“你爸爸和我對這一點的看法是對立的。他是政府官員，而我是資本家。
We get paid, and our success is measured on opposite behaviors.
我們都得到了報酬，但我們對成功的衡量標準卻相反。
He gets paid to spend money and hire people.
他的工作是花錢和雇人。
The more he spends and the more people he hires, the larger his organization becomes.
他花的錢和雇的人越多，他的機構就會越大。
In the government, the large his organization, the more he is respected.
在政府中，誰的機構更大，誰就更受尊敬。
On the other hand, within my organization, the fewer people I hire and the less money I spend, the more I am respected by my investors.
而在我的公司中，我雇的人越少，花的錢越少，我就越能受到投資者的尊敬。
That’s why I don’t like government people.
這就是我不喜歡政府官員的原因。
They have different objectives from most business people.
他們與大多數生意人的目標不同。
As the government grows, more and more tax dollars will be needed to support it.”
隨著政府規模的不斷擴大，就需要征收更多的稅以維持運營。”
As I said, the passage of taxes was only possible because the masses believed in the Robin Hood theory of economics, which was to take from the rich, and give to everyone else.
如前所述，稅之所以被接受是因為大眾相信羅賓漢式的經濟理論，即劫富濟貧的理論。
The problem was that the government’s appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept trickling down.
問題是政府對錢的胃口越來越大，以致中產階級也要被征稅，且稅收的范圍不斷向窮人擴展。
The rich on the other hand saw an opportunity.
另一方面，富人則看到了機會。
They don’t play by the same set of rules.
他們不按同一套牌理出牌。
As I said that the rich only knew about corporations, which became popular in the days of sailing ships.
正如我所說的，他們非常了解公司的魔力，而公司在海上貿易興盛時變得日益普遍。
The rich created the corporation as a vehicle to limit their risk to the assets of each voyage.
富人通過創辦公司來限制其每次航行的風險。
The rich put their money into a corporation to finance the voyage.
他們把資金注入一間公司來資助這次航海。
The corporation would then hire a crew to sail to the New World to look for treasures.
這間公司則雇一批船員去“新世界”尋寶。
If the ship was lost, the crew lost their lives, but the loss to the rich would be limited only to the money they invested for that particular voyage.
一旦船沉了，船員會喪生，但富人損失的僅限于他投資這次航行的資金。
It is the knowledge of the power of the legal structure of the corporation that really gives the rich a vast advantage over the poor and the middle class.
有關企業的法律知識給予富人超出窮人和中產階級的極大優勢。
