Even if all the tax they pay is VAT on expensive meals in London restaurants or stamp duty on flats in Mayfair, it is still additional income for Mr Brown.
Most dads seem to believe that generating income is their masculine duty, even if their wife works — even if she earns twice his salary.
多数爸爸似乎相信，挣钱是他们作为男人的职责，即便他们的妻子工作——即便她挣的工资是他的两倍。
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In 2007 Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimated that a 5% rise in fuel duty would cut the income of the poorest decile of Britons by 0.27%; the richest decile would lose only 0.11%.