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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.

最新一期美国《时代》周刊中一篇题为《美国最多元化的一届国会》的文章提到，不论是在民族和种族上，还是在代际上，第116届国会都是美国历史上最多元化的一届国会。新当选的国会议员中超过五分之一都是“千禧世代”，这些新面孔未免显得稚气未脱。

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《华盛顿邮报》中一篇题为《民主党从斯堪的纳维亚人的“社会主义”获得的教训》的文章称,斯堪的纳维亚人要缴纳的公司税率比美国低，但个人税率却比美国高。美国人均年缴税额为14793美元，斯堪的纳维亚人则达到25488美元，较之多出72%。正因如此，才能支撑起斯堪的纳维亚式的社会福利。因为富有的人太少，单靠把他们的边际税率提高到70%是无济于事的，加税最终还会落在中产阶级头上。如果要求大多数美国人多缴税，支持“全民医保”的人数占比会从71%直线下降到37%。