TA的每日心情 | 慵懒 2020-7-26 05:11 |
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英文原文比这篇中文的编译要好不少,尤其是这篇中文编译里一些反犹主义的undertone让我读来有些不舒服。
这个事例也谈不上Hasids多么会利用美国的选举制度。他们的人数超过了当地选民人口半数,能控制当地的政治是理所应当。不喜欢他们做法的可以称其为多数人暴政,但是不能说他们会钻美国选举制度空子。
这篇中文编译把令Hasids最不满的一个原因轻描淡写的一笔带过,就是他们的孩子尽管不去公立学校,但是公立学校的经费是来自于他们交的地产税,而且公立学校的开支涨的非常快。导致地产税是也是一年比一年高,涨的飞快,当然让他们越来越不可忍受,就用自己手里的选票把学校的开支降下去。英文节目里印的校董事会里Hasids董事的一封信我觉得也有他的道理
"Dear fellow taxpayer in the East Ramapo school district, again and again, I read about how upset you are about the members of the school board, how we bloc-voted them in, how we don't have the interests of the schoolchildren at heart. Well, let's take a closer look at that.
For many years, you took our tax money, year after year, increase after increase, and you never had any problem with that. But when we finally get together and say, that's enough, that is a problem.
I have a solution. How about giving all of us the option to bow out of the public school system and keep our money in our pockets? You want our money and our silence. Sorry, you cannot have it all your way."
而且节目里说的实际上学校的开支也没降,自从Hasids控制了school board后,学校的开支还增长了33%,当地的地产税率增长了9%。不过好像因为老师的退休金,医疗费用,工会合同增长的更快的多,真正用在公立学校学生身上的钱是少了一些。但是照这个节目的主持人Ben Calhoun的看法,地产税应该至少涨25%,对Hasids们来说这么大的增加不能接受我觉得也能理解。
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