Sentence examples for looks regressive from inspiring English sources

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From a lifetime perspective, therefore, the U.S. Social Security tax is progressive, even though at a point in time it looks regressive.

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In 2013 his images of women look regressive, to put it mildly.

All three of these factors result in the IFS data making the government's changes look more regressive.

Taking into account all the tax and benefit changes that the coalition government inherited from the previous Labour government and the new ones that it announced before the budget, the overall package looked broadly regressive.

A VAT rise, which is highly regressive, looks almost inevitable, and the Chancellor refused to rule it out.

But with the old version of the vaccine, I have not yet come across a study that looked at regressives — when a child had some speech but lost it.

It looks progressive relative to other rich countries only because consumption taxes elsewhere are regressive.America's system could be more progressive and much more efficient if its politicians were less wedded to "tax preferences".

Suddenly, the Kansan sugar-cane fields where they off their victims look like a regressive dumping ground for the film's hi-tech, Chinese-dominated future.

In looking at the regressive platforms of the party, the pessimistic, hate-filled rhetoric of its speakers, the racism and xenophobia of its members, and, most egregiously, the repugnance and incompetence of its now-officially nominated candidate, I can only pity the person who has somehow, inexplicably, unfathomably, hitched a ride on that particular train.

This regressive wistful thinking looks, scarily, as if it might act itself out in dangerously self-destructive behavior, but it doesn't finally come to a fatal point; instead he learns that his own will to live is stronger.

First, there are quirks in the presentation of government statistics on the distribution of the tax burden that make the tax look more regressive than it really is.

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