摘要：80家美国最大企业的CEO联名倡议，要求（1）增加税收，减少税收漏洞诸如各类抵扣，（2）减少政府开支，（3）加强社会福利系统的根基，（4）降低各种社会福利开支的增长幅度。基本上CEO们倡议实行simpson-bowles计划。simpson-bowles计划是奥巴马总统成立的一个共和－民主2党联合预算委员会提出的经济改革报告，基本结论是为乐美国经济的长治久安，必须做到每增加3元税收，同时砍掉1元开支。至今没有任何一个总统候选人敢支持这个计划，包括奥巴马本人。
Chief executives of more than 80 big-name U.S. corporations, from Aetna Inc.to Weyerhaeuser Co., are banding together to pressure Congress to reduce the federal deficit with tax-revenue increases as well as spending cuts.
The CEOs, in a statement to be released on Thursday, say any fiscal plan "that can succeed both financially and politically" has to limit the growth of health-care spending, make Social Security solvent and "include comprehensive and pro-growth tax reform, which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues and reduces the deficit."
The declaration differs sharply from those of several other business groups, which urge Washington to deal with the deficit and avoid across-the-board spending cuts and tax increases set for year-end—but avoid any stance on the politically charged issue of raising taxes.
The CEOs who signed the manifesto deem tax increases inevitable no matter which party succeeds at the polls in November. "There is no possible way; you can do the arithmetic a million different ways" to avoid raising taxes, said Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna. "You can't tax your way to fix this problem, and you can't cut entitlements enough to fix this problem."
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