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http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2012/new/dec/29/today-int6.htm

《中英對照讀新聞》Japanese scholar：Tax the handsome日本學者建議對帥哥徵稅

◎陳成良

As part of the end of year windup, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper has
created a Facebook page where readers can discuss solutions to various issues
facing Japan. The current topic of debate is the declining birthrate.

作為年終總結的一部分，日本「朝日新聞」設立了一個臉書專頁，讓讀者討論日本面臨的
各種問題的解決方法。當前討論的話題是不斷下降的出生率。

Takuro Morinaga, an economic analyst, weighed in with this controversial
proposal："If we levied a ’handsome tax’ on good-looking guys, that would
serve to correct a little bit of the unfairness in dating, making it easier
for homely guys to find a partner and the number of marriages would increase."



Morinaga goes on to say, "There’s a lot of discussion about income
disparity, but no one is talking about attractiveness disparity. Good-looking
guys get an insane amount of women. At one time, some of them are dating over
a 100 women. The result is that women are converging around one type of guy."



He goes on to point out the prevalence of the "lady-killer" in popular
culture as evidence that good-looking guys do better with the fairer sex.

他還指出流行文化中盛行的「師奶殺手」就是帥哥更得女士青睞的證據。

Morinaga suggests doubling the income tax on good-looking guys while reducing
the tax rate for homely guys by 10-20 percent. Currently, the highest rate of
income tax in Japan is 40 percent, so this would mean high-earning,
good-looking fellows are in for an 80 percent income tax rate.




新聞辭典

windup：名詞，結束；總結。

weigh in：慣用語：在討論或爭執中提供看法。例句：One angry participant weighed
in to remind us that a lot of what we’d read was not true.（一名憤怒的參與者
告訴我們，我們讀到的許多資訊並非事實。）

homely：形容詞，相貌平庸的。例句：A homely child often develops into an
attractive girl.（相貌平庸的小孩時常長大成為美女。）

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