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he postWorld War II Revenue Act of 1945 reduced the individual maximum tax from 94 percent to 91 percent. The Revenue Act of 1950, during the korean war, reduced it to percent, but it was raised the next year to 92 percent (Revenue Act of 1950, Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 994, Stat. 906). It remained at this level until 1964, when it was reduced to 70 percent. The Revenue Act of 1954 revised the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, making major changes that were beneficial to the taxpayer, including providing for child care deductions (later changed to credits), an increase in the charitable contribution limit, a tax credit against taxable retirement ine, employee deductions for business expenses, and liberalized depreciation deductions. From 1954 to 1962, the Internal Revenue Code was amended by 183 separate acts. In 1974 the employee retirement ine security act (ERISA) created protections for employees whose employers promised specified pensions or other retirement contributions (Pub. L. No. 93406, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 829). ERISA required that to be tax deductible, the employer39。s gross ine to arrive at an adjusted gross ine, from which additional deductions are taken to arrive at the taxable ine. Once the amount of taxable ine has been determined, tax rate charts determine the exact amount of tax owed. If the amount of tax owed is less than the amount already paid through tax prepayment or the withholding of taxes from paychecks, the taxpayer is entitled to a refund from the IRS. If the amount of tax owed is more than what has already been paid, the taxpayer must pay the difference to the IRS. Calculating the gross ine of restaurant employees whose ine is partially derived from gratuities left by customers has led to disputes with the IRS and employers over how much they should contribute in federal insurance contribution act (fica) taxes. Although customers pay these tips directly to employees, federal law deems the tips to have been wages paid by the employer for FICA tax purposes. Employers are imputed to have paid large sums of money they never handled and for which they no way of ascertaining the exact amount. The Supreme Court, in在以后的時(shí)間里,我會(huì)更加努力,爭取做得更好。生活在幸福中的人們,他們害怕死亡,害怕痛苦。余華正是用他獨(dú)特地方式,表現(xiàn)他對于人性最深切的關(guān)懷:善與惡是并肩存在的,要對它們一視同仁,用同情的眼光看世界。福貴的浪蕩導(dǎo)致了他經(jīng)歷的一系列的災(zāi)難,親身經(jīng)歷了七位親人的離去,余華用福貴這個(gè)生者的痛苦表達(dá)了對生者的關(guān)注以及消解苦難的方法—忍耐,沒有控訴,就連福貴要?dú)⒖h長為有慶報(bào)仇時(shí)僅有的憤怒也被“縣長是自己的戰(zhàn)友春生”這一巧合沖得一干二凈。我想這就是余華彰顯的悲憫情懷,他力圖告訴人們苦難與殘酷是必然存在的,但它們不是生活的部,人們要學(xué)會(huì)承受苦難,學(xué)會(huì)用善良用愛消解苦難,學(xué)會(huì)用堅(jiān)韌與忍耐超越苦難,為活著而活著,世界終究是彌漫著愛與陽光的!3 余華小說悲憫性的存在原因 余華的悲憫性人道主義關(guān)懷從何而來?這個(gè)問題的答案要從余華的“生存哲學(xué)”和“寫作意愿”兩方面來淺析。例如,許三觀給何小勇養(yǎng)了十幾年的兒子,他內(nèi)心對何小勇充滿了無限的怨恨,可當(dāng)何小勇遭遇車禍命懸一線,需要一樂為他喊魂時(shí),許三觀還是放下了這段仇恨,他總是說做人要有良心,正是許三觀這種不加修飾的信仰,使得這個(gè)世界變得如此溫暖。 生命意識(shí)余華對《許三觀賣血記》中的平凡故事,對生存的意義作了重新的解讀,他讓我們明白:人類存在的本質(zhì)并不是苦難和絕望,而是那份源自生命本身的無私的愛與善良。但面對生活的苦難,許三觀不得不多次賣血來擺脫各種困境,但在十幾次的賣血過程中,有七次是為一樂,可一樂是許玉蘭和何小勇的私生子,許三觀要忍受當(dāng)了許多年烏龜王八后用血來供養(yǎng)別人兒子的內(nèi)心的煎熬。福貴確實(shí)以自己的實(shí)際行動(dòng)來踐行著這種智慧。春生因在文革中被批斗而失去了活下去的勇氣,一直記恨他的家珍卻在他人生最艱難的時(shí)刻放下了仇恨,不僅原諒了春生還鼓勵(lì)春生:“要活著,你還欠我們一條命,你就拿自己的命來還吧!” [5] “死的已經(jīng)死了,活著的就要好好活下去”。家珍的愛已經(jīng)超越了夫妻之間的恩情她不是在抱恩,它的愛是建立在忠貞之上的無私奉獻(xiàn)。給福貴另一份支持的是他的妻子家珍給予他的愛情。福貴的一生可以說是多災(zāi)多難,他親眼目睹了所有的親人離他而去,只留下福貴這個(gè)垂垂老矣的老人孤苦伶仃地活著。無論是《活著》 還是《許三觀賣血記》中,無形的命運(yùn)枷鎖和無時(shí)無刻的困難都強(qiáng)壓于人類個(gè)體之中。2 余華小說中的悲憫性我們想要探索余華在小說中所表達(dá)出的悲憫情懷,首先必須要弄懂這種深刻的悲憫性由何而來,毫無疑問這種悲憫情懷的表達(dá)是建立在對生存的殘酷性毫無保留地揭示之中的。余華對主人公的受難進(jìn)行了深入思考,面對苦難,讀者從小說主人公身上看到了忍耐力量的強(qiáng)大,學(xué)會(huì)了如何面對苦難,更看到了人類頑強(qiáng)的生命力。s fiction theory, through the analysis of living and xu through sell blood to record the passion, pity sex reason and meaning of yu hua39。他被迫靠唱演皮影艱辛地維持生活,經(jīng)歷了人生的多種磨難。……作家的使命不是發(fā)泄,不是控訴或者揭露,他應(yīng)該向人們展示高尚?!?[2]余華為福貴找到了生存下去的有效途徑——忍耐,這使得整部小說都因這種無限寬廣的忍耐,變得平靜沒有控訴,沒有尖叫,甚至都沒有憤怒,有的只是福貴用無邊無際的忍耐包容著一切?!?[4]當(dāng)福貴被迫充軍,家珍一個(gè)人扛起了生活的重?fù)?dān)。這份愛的體現(xiàn)主要集中在福貴與春生兩人的故事中。福貴作為《活著》的主人公,是以歌聲出場的,“我聽到老人粗啞卻令人感動(dòng)的嗓音,他唱起了舊日的歌謠”。如果沒有這種樂觀向上的精神,福貴不會(huì)在親眼目睹親人一個(gè)個(gè)死去后堅(jiān)強(qiáng)地活著。這叫風(fēng)流一時(shí),吃苦一世。兒子們都喜歡吃紅燒肉,許三觀就不厭其煩地炒了三遍紅燒肉:“先把幾片紅燒肉放到水里煮一會(huì),煮熟就行,不能煮老了,煮熟了拿起來晾干……紅燒肉就做成了。我想這一躬不僅是對何小勇妻女的感謝,對她們能冰釋前嫌的感激更是對這份血濃于水親情的敬畏。余華自己也曾經(jīng)說過他對《圣經(jīng)》的喜愛程度與對《馬太受難曲》的喜愛是一樣的,從福貴和許三觀承受苦難的方式上我們可以看出他有與《圣經(jīng)》一樣的人生觀。福貴從自己一生的苦難經(jīng)歷中明白了生命的真諦,世事無常,福貴還來不及尋求精神上的追求,單單是生存的苦難就壓壞了福貴,于是他活著的目的就變得特別單純,僅僅為了填飽肚子而活著,為了身為一家之主的責(zé)任而活著,“人是為了活著本身活著而不是為活著之外的其他任何事物而活著”,[13]這是一種最原始的生存欲望,福貴沒有更高一層次的精神追求,“當(dāng)福貴抽去人的社會(huì)屬性而將其還原為赤裸裸的自身自然時(shí),不小心地將人的價(jià)值也過濾了,而只剩下人的生物性,于是他對人的終極關(guān)懷也就被簡化為“活著”,唯問人是否活著,不追問咋個(gè)活法”?!吧拖褚恢浑u蛋,不小心磕哪就破了,而活下去并活得愉快卻是非常難得事” [15]生命個(gè)體活在世上首先是為了“活”,不管怎樣的形式,怎樣的狀態(tài),人都是拼命地為自己爭取活下去的機(jī)會(huì)。他在意識(shí)到苦難存在的合理性時(shí)同樣意識(shí)到了希望存在的必然性,所以苦難的盡頭絕不是絕望。他們并不是不懼怕痛苦不怕死亡。 loan am