这不仅对于资助国家所需的公共物品至关重要，而且对于恢复公平感也必不可少。我们常被告知，金钱买不到幸福。甚至一些经济学家也赞同这一点。曾获诺贝尔奖的经济学家丹尼尔·卡尼曼和安格斯·迪顿曾提出，收入增加只能将人们的情感福祉提升到按当今货币计算约11万5000美元的上限。
It is essential not just to fund the public goods the nation needs, it is indispensable to restore a sense of fairness Money doesn’t buy happiness, we’re told. Even some economists agree. The Nobel Prize-winning economists, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, once proposed that rising income increased people’s emotional wellbeing only up to a ceiling of about $115,000 in today’s money.
他们可能没见过多少亿万富翁。超级富豪们可能并不追求那种充满欢乐意义上的幸福。但他们会使出浑身解数来守住自己的财富，哪个税务机关要是敢碰他们的宝藏，那就惨了。
They probably hadn’t met many billionaires. The ultra-rich may not pursue happiness in the joyful sense of the word. But they will try every trick in the book to hang on to their stash and woe befall the tax authority that tries to lay a finger on their treasure.