美国为何国富而政府穷

飞雪寒冰

There should be no need for drama over the US budget. After all, compared with other rich countries, the US starts out richer and faces a milder demographic challenge to fiscal solvency in the next decades.
美国预算原本用不着出现这么戏剧化的场面。毕竟，与其它富国相比，美国要富裕得多，未来几十年人口因素带给财政偿付能力的挑战也温和得多。

Compare the US with France, Germany and Japan. Average incomes in the US are 11 per cent higher than in Japan, and 16 per cent higher than in the other two, according to the International Monetary Fund. So the US, and its government, will have more resources to direct at the problem of its ageing population.
来看看美国与法国、德国和日本之间的比较。国际货币基金组织(IMF)的数据表明，美国的人均收入比日本高出11%，比法国和德国高16%。因此美国及其政府拥有更多资源解决人口老龄化问题。