It was fitting that Donald Trump was on the way to the Vatican when he came out with his US budget. Only a pope could hear a confession as egregious as President Trump’s fiscal plan. Pope Francis champions “social capitalism”, a philosophy that values each member of society. Mr Trump’s budget would decimate support for America’s poorest to fund a tax bonanza for its wealthiest. His budget achieves balance through numerological voodoo. Rarely has a fiscal document relied on such dark accounting.
美國(guó)總統(tǒng)唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)在去梵蒂岡的路上推出了他的財(cái)政預(yù)算提案，這一安排堪稱(chēng)貼切。也只有教皇才能傾聽(tīng)像該提案這般駭人的懺悔。教皇方濟(jì)各(Pope Francis)支持“社會(huì)資本主義”，其理念是尊重社會(huì)的每一位成員。而特朗普的財(cái)政預(yù)算將大幅減少對(duì)美國(guó)最貧窮人群的支持，以便為針對(duì)最富裕人群的減稅買(mǎi)單。他的預(yù)算僅靠數(shù)字巫術(shù)實(shí)現(xiàn)平衡。很少有哪份財(cái)政文件是建立在這樣的暗箱會(huì)計(jì)手法之上的。