Sentence examples for * distortive from inspiring English sources

"Rather than the current distortive 'slab' approach which sees people pay too much tax and distorts the market, we will ensure that taxpayers pay an amount more proportionate to the value of their property".

China's ongoing determination to fix the yuan is the least defensible and most distortive.

Much of what Kapuscinski wrote concerned the distortive and corrupting power of totalitarianism.

"Climate Vortex Sutra," by the photographer David Benjamin Sherry, presents pristine landscapes in unnatural hues to suggest humans' distortive impact.

Flat tax-rates on a broad base are less distortive than high marginal rates on a narrow base.

Second, rising inequality has not, by and large, been accompanied by a smaller (and hence less distortive) state.

Many other distortive factors remain and we will not have an open space until we get rid of them all.

_"_Climate Vortex Sutra," by the photographer David Benjamin Sherry, presents pristine landscapes in unnatural hues to suggest humans' distortive impact.

By the same token, taxes on things that cannot be moved easily, such as property, are less distortive than taxes on mobile economic agents, particularly firms.

And rather than raise tax rates, governments would do better to improve their tax codes, broadening the base and eliminating distortive loopholes (such as preferential treatment of housing).

Among expenditure taxes, a flat tax-rate on final goods is less distortive than a panoply of excise taxes since it affects spending decisions less.