Sentence examples for regressive from inspiring English sources

I think over time it will be a regressive move because we have to appeal to all of Britain, not just because it's morally the right thing to do … but because it is an electoral reality.

Glaring anomalies caused by the removal of child benefit for higher-rate taxpayers remain – with the addition of a complicated system of calculation – and the freeze on personal allowances for the elderly is surely regressive.

The Treasury's distributional impact analysis published today still shows that the coalition's approach to deficit reduction is largely regressive.

These assumptions are racist, as is the use of black women and men in some music videos as motifs for deeply regressive ideas about race, class and crime.

If a tax cut was deemed necessary, then working towards realigning the national insurance threshold with the income tax allowance would have been less regressive and a more sensible reform.

But it has always come with the big caveat that doing so will make the tax system more regressive and the government will need to ensure payments to lower and middle class households are improved to account for this.

Whatever help there is for low earners is a progressive drop in a regressive ocean.

Does Costello think a broadened GST will restore foreign aid cuts and that a regressive tax is OK because, as he stated, poor people don't eat much fresh food?

"The G20 is not trying to do anything that would keep people in the dark but instead trying to encourage countries to move off blanket subsidies which are regressive," he said.

The rise in emissions since the carbon price's repeal may be a sign of a regressive trend to come.

The charitable view says he thinks he was attempting humor; but he wasn't joking about the regressive values.