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繳稅日
1913年4月15日
糟糕，又到了4月15日。即使你不知道這個日期代表什麼，你的父母也一定知道：這就是繳稅日。所有美國人在這一天都要繳交所得稅。所得稅已經成為我們日常生活的一部分，很難想像美國不收取所得稅會是什麼樣子。
打從一開始，一個國家就要付出昂貴費用來運作，而政府也必須負責籌措經費，來支付這些費用。在獨立戰爭之前，酒稅與煙稅是政府主要的稅收來源，但是政府需要更多的經費。
Uh oh, it's April 15. Even if you don't know what that means, your parents probably do--it's Tax Day. Income taxes are usually due on this day from all employed Americans. Income taxes have become such a common part of our lives, that it is hard to imagine that, at one time, there was no income tax in the U.S.
From its beginning, this country has been very expensive to run, and the government has been responsible for raising the money to pay those expenses. Before the Revolutionary War, whiskey and tobacco taxes provided most of the revenue. After the war, however, the government needed more money.
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