Billionaire Warren Buffett urged U.S. lawmakers to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments.

　　億萬富翁沃倫·巴菲特近日呼吁美國立法者向美國富豪增稅，以幫助削減預算赤字，并表示此舉并不會打擊投資熱情。

　　The 80-year-old accused Congress of being 'billionaire friendly' and claimed in an opinion article for the New York Times that they spared him and his rich friends when talking about a 'shared sacrifice'.

　　80歲的巴菲特指責國會“善待億萬富翁”，并在《紐約時報》上撰寫評論文章稱，在談及“共同做出犧牲”時，國會對他和他的富豪朋友們過度寬容。

　　He said:"Our leaders have asked for ‘shared sacrifice’. But when they did the asking, they spared me."

　　他說：“我們的領導者們要求共同做出犧牲，但付諸實施時，卻放過了我。”

　　"I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched."

　　“我向富豪朋友們求證會損失多少，但他們也都毫發未損。”

　　"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice."

　　“國會過于善待億萬富翁，我和我的富豪朋友們一直都被溺愛著。政府現在應該嚴肅對待共同犧牲這回事兒了。”

　　Buffett, one of the world's richest men and chairman of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc, said his federal tax bill last year was $6,938,744.

　　巴菲特稱自己去年向聯邦政府繳稅693萬8744美元。他是世界上最富有的人之一，同時掌管伯克希爾?哈撒韋公司。

　　"That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 per cent of my taxable income - and that's actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office."

　　 “聽起來好像是一大筆錢。但那只占了我應稅收入的17.4%，甚至低于我辦公室里的其他20名員工。”

　　"Their tax burdens ranged from 33 per cent to 41 per cent and averaged 36 per cent," he said.

　　他說：“他們的稅收負擔在33%到41%之間，平均36%。”

　　Lawmakers engaged in a partisan battle over spending and taxes for more than three months before agreeing on August 2 to raise the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling, avoiding a U.S. default.

　　此前，立法者們陷入黨派斗爭，為支出和稅收足足吵了三個多月，直到8月2日才達成協議，上調14.3萬億美元的債務上限，避免了美債違約。

　　Mr Buffett said: "Americans are rapidly losing faith in the ability of Congress to deal with our country's fiscal problems."

　　巴菲特說：“美國民眾對國會應對國家財政問題能力的信心正迅速流失。”

　　"Only action that is immediate, real and very substantial will prevent that doubt from morphing into hopelessness."

　　“只有立即采取切實有效的行動，才能避免這種質疑變成絕望。”

　　He said higher taxes for the rich will not discourage investment and cited the example of the eighties when rates were much higher.

　　他以上世紀80年代為例，那時稅率比現在高得多，但并沒有抑制投資。

　　"Back in the 1980s and 1990s, tax rates for the rich were far higher, and my percentage rate was in the middle of the pack."

　　 “20世紀80年代和90年代時，富人的稅率要比現在高得多，我的稅率也就是中等水平。”