马克思说，赋税是国家存在的基础。而我们更爱说“税收取之于民，用之于民”。而因种种原因，我们有相当部分税收“用之于官”。这种状况加上深化经济体制改革的其它需要，就构成了“九届人大”痛下精简政府机构的原因。先看几组数字。我国总人口和政府支治人员之间的比例：唐 Marx said that taxation is the basis for the existence of a country. And we love to say “Taxes are taken from the people and used to the people.” Due to various reasons, we have a considerable portion of tax revenue “used in official.” This situation, combined with other needs for deepening economic restructuring, has contributed to the streamlining of government structures under the painstaking efforts of the Ninth NPC. Look at several sets of numbers. The ratio between China’s total population and government-supported workers: Tang