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The article in Time on Feb 17th 2019, America's Most Diverse Congress mentions that the newest members of the 116th Congress made the legislative body the most diverse in U.S. history not only ethnically and racially but generationally as well. More than 20% of the new lawmakers are millennials, making this a particularly fresh-faced freshman class.

最新一期美國《時代》周刊中一篇題為《美國最多元化的一屆國會》的文章提到，不論是在民族和種族上，還是在代際上，第116屆國會都是美國歷史上最多元化的一屆國會。新當選的國會議員中超過五分之一都是“千禧世代”，這些新面孔未免顯得稚氣未脫。

The article with the title saying Here’s the right lesson liberals should learn from Scandinavian ‘socialism’in Washingtonposton Feb 11th, 2019,mentioned that The Scandinavians have lower corporate tax rates than the United States but much higher individual taxes.Scandinavians pay $25,488 a head in taxes compared with $14,793 a head in the United States — 72% more. This is what it takes to finance a Scandinavian-style social welfare state. It can’t be done simply by raising marginal tax rates on the wealthiest taxpayers to 70%, because few taxpayers pay the top rate. It requires a massive tax hike on the middle class.Support for Medicare-for-all plummets from 71% to 37% if it will require most Americans to pay more in taxes.

2019年2月11日的《華盛頓郵報》中一篇題為《民主黨從斯堪的納維亞人的“社會主義”獲得的教訓》的文章稱,斯堪的納維亞人要繳納的公司稅率比美國低，但個人稅率卻比美國高。美國人均年繳稅額為14793美元，斯堪的納維亞人則達到25488美元，較之多出72%。正因如此，才能支撐起斯堪的納維亞式的社會福利。因為富有的人太少，單靠把他們的邊際稅率提高到70%是無濟于事的，加稅最終還會落在中產階級頭上。如果要求大多數美國人多繳稅，支持“全民醫(yī)保”的人數占比會從71%直線下降到37%。