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Goal Trimmer Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it’ s a dream that was, a twili
Goal Trimmer Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it’ s a dream that was, a twili
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Goal Trimmer
Utopias are supposed to be dreams of the future. But the American Utopia? Lately it’ s a dream that was, a twilit memory of the Golden Age between V-J day and OPEC, when even a blue-collar paycheck bought a place in the middle class. The promise of paradise regained has become a key to the Democratic Party pitch. Mickey Kaus, a senior editor of the New Republic, says the Democrats are wasting their time. As the U. S. enters a world where only the highly skilled and well educated will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism or job training for jobs that aren’t there is going to stop it. Income equality is a hopeless cause in the U. S. "Liberalism would be less depressing if it had a more attainable end." Kaus writes," a goal short of money equality." Liberal Democrats should embrace an aim he calls civic equality. If government can’ t bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone, regardless of income, receives the same treatment. National health care, improved public schools, universal national service and government financing of nearly all election campaigns, which would freeze out special-interest money ---there are the unobjectionable components of his enlarged public sphere.
Kaus is right to fear the hardening of class lines, but wrong to think the stresses can be relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half. "No, we can’ t tell them they’ ll be rich," he admits." Or even comfortably well off. But we can offer them at least a material minimum and a good shot at climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a rude cheer for it. A good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would probably peel off. At the center of Kaus’ book is a thoughtful but no less risky proposal to dynamite welfare. He rightly understands how fear and loathing of the chronically unemployed underclass have encouraged middle income Americans to flee from everyone below them on the class scale. The only way to eliminate welfare dependency, Kaus maintains, is by cutting off checks for all able-bodied recipients, including single mothers with children. He would have government provide them instead with jobs that pay slightly less than the minimum wage, earned-income tax credits to nudge them over the poverty line, drug counseling, job training and, if necessary, day care for their children. Kaus doesn’t sell this as social policy on the cheap. He expects it would cost up to $ 59 billion a year more than the $ 23 billion already spent annually on welfare in the U. S. And he knows it would be politically perilous, because he suggests paying for the plan by raiding Social Security funds and trimming benefits for upper- income retirees. Yet he considers if money well spent it would undo the knot of chronic poverty and help foster class rapprochement. And it would be too. But one advantage of being an author is that you only ask people to listen to you, not to vote for you.
In Kaus’ opinion, ______.
选项
A、the government should strive to realize equality in everybody’ s income
B、the government should do its best to bring every American into the middle class
C、the goal will be easier to attain if we change it from money equality to civic equality
D、it’ s almost impossible for the government to provide such things as national health care, improved public schools, universal national service, etc
答案
C
解析
细节题。从文章第二段可知,Kaus提倡公民平等(civil equality),即让收入不同的人得到相同的公民待遇(receive the same treatment)。这个目标比较容易达到。政府可以通过提供国家医疗津贴(national health care)、高级公立学校(improved public schools)和国民普遍服务(universal national service)等来实现公民平等这一目标。可见,选项C(如果从金钱收入平等转移到公民平等目标的实现会容易些)符合Kaus的观点,为正确答案。选项A、B,D均与文章内容不符。
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