This way, sir A brave（勇敢的） budget based

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This way, sir
A brave（勇敢的） budget based on an inconvenient truth: Britain needs finance and foreign investment
IT WAS spun（结网） as a package for working families, a way of supporting the humblest（最卑微的） toilers（劳动者） in the economic vineyard（葡萄园）, and it was attacked as a tax raid（突袭） on impoverished（贫困的） grannies（奶奶）. George Osborne's third budget as chancellor of the exchequer（财政部） did indeed reduce income taxes for low-earners while freezing the tax-free allowances（）（免税津贴） for some pensioners（退休金领取者）. But its strongest signals, especially Mr Osborne's decision to cut the top rate of income tax, levied on incomes over ? 150,000 ($238,000) a year, from 50% to 45%, were aimed elsewhere. This was a budget for companies-particularly big, international ones-and for their best-paid employees. The politics of this will be rough, but it was the right thing to do。
先生，这样一来，
一个基于不便事实的勇敢的预算：英国需要资金和外国投资
IT当时是作为工薪家庭的一揽子计划而产生的，这是对经济葡萄园中最卑鄙的劳力者的一种支持方式，并且遭到了税收打击贫穷的阿妈。乔治·奥斯本（George Osborne）作为财政大臣的第三份预算确实降低了低收入者的所得税，同时冻结了一些养老金领取者的免税津贴。但是它最强烈的信号，尤其是奥斯本决定降低最高所得税率的决定，是对收入超过10英镑的人征收的？一年的目标目标是150,000（238,000美元），从50％升至45％。这是针对公司（尤其是大型国际公司）及其收入最高的员工的预算。政治上将是艰难的，但这是正确的做法。

Because Britain specialises in high-value services such as banking, accountancy（会计工作） and insurance, it needs to attract the world's brightest. Recently the Tories and their Liberal Democrat coalition partners have given the impression（印象） that capitalism is a dirty word and that the City of London, Britain's greatest industrial cluster（产业集群）, is an embarrassment（难堪）. This week's change may be more symbolic（象征性的） than fiscal (the rich will have to pay more in other ways), but symbols matter（重要的象征）. At a time when France's most likely next president wants to introduce a 75% tax（开征-税） and Barack Obama is moaning（抱怨） about millionaires and billionaires, Britain is welcoming entrepreneurs and financiers. Economically, this budget was mainly a piece of micro-fiddling（微不足道的）。
由于英国专门研究银行，会计和保险等高价值服务，因此需要吸引世界上最聪明的国家。最近，保守党和他们的自由民主党联盟伙伴给人的印象是，资本主义是一个肮脏的词，而英国最大的产业集群伦敦市却是一个尴尬。本周的变化可能比财政更具有象征意义（富人将不得不以其他方式支付更多），但是象征意义很重要。当法国最有可能的下一任总统希望开征75％的税，而巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）抱怨百万富翁和亿万富翁时，英国则欢迎企业家和金融家。从经济上讲，这一预算主要是微不足道的。

Mr Osborne made his big fiscal decision in 2010, when he announced a rapid timetable for eliminating Britain's large structural deficit（结构性赤字）. He has stuck to the course set out then, which this newspaper broadly supported. The budget was mildly （轻微的）expansionary（扩张性的） in the near term, without disturbing Britain's bond rating（债券评级） (see article). Not all the microeconomic nudges（微观经济推动印度） were to do with business. For instance, Mr Osborne followed through with an earlier pledge to abolish child support（子女抚养费） for high earners (albeit with some tapering（逐渐减少）). At a stroke（一下子）, this demolishes（破坏） the long tradition of universal benefits（普遍利益）, which was intended to secure general support for welfare. But most of the measures seemed to have business in mind（考虑业务）. The chancellor accelerated a cut