In the US election the size of the state is the central, feverishly contested issue. So, too, in the political debate in the UK and Japan, where large overhangs of public sector debt make fiscal retrenchment as much of an imperative as it is in the US. Yet in all three countries a fundamental point is missing from the discussion – namely, that the state is hostage in each case to a corporate sector that poses a huge obstacle to public sector shrinkage.
在美国总统选举中，政府规模是一个争议很大的核心问题。在英国和日本的政治辩论中，政府规模也是这样的一个问题。在这两个国家，公共部门的巨大债务使得它们必须像美国一样实行财政紧缩。但上述三个国家的讨论中都漏掉了最根本的一点，即在这些国家，政府都已遭到公司部门的劫持，后者对收缩公共部门规模构成了巨大障碍。
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