"Soak the rich" nghĩa là gì?
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"Soak the rich" = bòn rút bọn nhà giàu -> nghĩa là thu tiền từ những nhóm, cá nhân giàu có, thường thông qua thuế.
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Biden’s vision (tầm nhìn) demonstrates an unwillingness to learn from other countries’ examples. France tried to soak the rich under socialist president François Hollande, elected in 2012.
Petro is running on a classic “Soak the rich” platform, which — oddly for a Latin-American leftist (người phái tả) — he’s coupled with a trendy eco-platform of spurning fossil-fuel extraction and protecting Colombia’s “biodiversity.”
Lawyers, already scrambling to help clients (khách hàng) prepare for tax changes in Washington that threaten to soak the rich, say they’re increasingly getting requests from art collectors to find strategies (chiến thuật) to shield their wealth from the Internal Revenue Service. The solution: giving away just a fraction of their ownership.
As the recession (suy thoái) deepens, unions will have to battle concession (nhượng bộ) demands and budget cuts. But beyond these defensive fights there’s a demand whose time has come: let’s soak the rich.
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