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[Day 1793 2019-08-24]

Lesson 36-1 The cost of government 政府的开支

If a nation is essentially disunited, it is left to the government to hold it together.

This increases the expense of government, and reduces correspondingly the amount of

economic resources that could be used for developing the country. And it should not be

forgotten how small those resources are in a poor and backward country. Where the

cost of government is high, resources for development are correspondingly low.

This may be illustrated by comparing the position of a nation with that of a private

business enterprise. An enterprise has to incur certain costs and expenses in order to

stay in business. For our purposes, we are concerned only with one kind of cost---the

cost of managing and administering the business. Such administrative overheads in a

business are analogous to the cost of government in a nation.

任务配置：L0+L1+L4

知识笔记：

disunited  adj. 不统一的; 不和的; 有纷争的;

incur    v. 招致; 遭受; 引起; 引致，带来(成本、花费等);

overheads    n. 经费; 营运费用; 经常性开支;

analogous    adj. 相似的; 类似的;

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