Barack Obama might prefer to focus his energies on immigration, gun control and education. But it is the tax and spending wars that still paralyse Washington, and the US is on the verge of a dismal solution – the sequestration. Unless a new budget deal can be agreed within the next few days, almost all forms of so-called “discretionary” spending, departmental budgets that the US Congress sets each year, will be cut equally and indiscriminately – beginning next week.
巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)可能更愿意將他的主要精力放在移民、控槍和教育問題上。但是目前令美國政府陷入癱瘓的，還是圍繞稅收和支出展開的爭論。如今美國正處于“強制減支”的邊緣——這是一種糟糕之極的解決方案。美國如果在今后幾天不能達成新的預算協議，幾乎所有形式的所謂的“可自由支配”開支，也就是美國國會每年制定的部門預算，都會從下周開始無差別地遭受同樣幅度的削減。
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