fundamental economic issue

基本解释

Traffic problem in metropolis is a fundamental issue to their urban economic construction.
城市交通問題一直是我國城市經濟建設的一項重大課題。
Thee benefit to society of competition is that it makes a major contribution to the fundamental economic issue, which is the scarcity of productive resources.
費爾斯接著說，競爭對社會的益処在於它對解決最根本的經濟問題作出了重要的貢獻，也就是生産資源的缺乏問題。
The exchange rate issue is the fundamental national economic development, is an economic development to a certain level must be to solve the problem.
滙率問題的根本就是國家經濟發展的問題，是一個國際經濟發展到一定程度都必須要解決的問題。

So while Republicans are working to make this election entirely about the economy and the role of government, they seem to be completely ignoring an issue of both fundamental economic and social importance.
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The answer is yes, of course, but the more fundamental issue is that the IRS should not be taxing economic activity that occurs outside U.S. borders.
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