Eliminate tax expenditures, and a big chunk of the deficit would vanish.

倘若消除税收支出，将减少大笔赤字。

A closer examination of tax expenditures, however, suggests that achieving those two goals will be difficult.

然而，进一步审视税收支出表明，达到这两个目标并不容易。

Although in aggregate there are enough tax expenditures available to cover those cuts, the totals are deceptive.

尽管税收支出总计足够支付这些削减，这些总量是具有欺骗性的。

Include these “tax expenditures” in the budget, Mr Bartlett says, and America's state looks as bloated as any in Europe.

巴特莱特先生表示，包括这些预算中“税收支出”在内，美国的状况看起来与欧洲任何国家一样庞大。

Tax expenditures now look likely to play a central role in the economic debates that are raging in this year's election.

如今看来，税收出入似乎在今年越演越烈的总统竞选中的经济辩论里扮演了重要角色。

For one thing, Mr Romney's lower rates would automatically reduce the value of any tax expenditures he chose to eliminate.

就一方面来说，罗姆尼更低的税收政策将自动减少他选择消减的税收支出的价值。

These exemptions, deductions and credits (collectively known as “tax expenditures”) will cost America's Treasury some $1.1 trillion in forgone collections this year, reckons Donald Marron of the Tax Policy Centre (TPC), a research group.

根据一家调查组织，税收政策中心的唐纳德马兰所说，今年，这些免税，减税，补助（合计称为税收支出）将使美国财政部放弃1.1兆美元的税收。