Sentence examples for regressive by from inspiring English sources

Because these contributions are usually based on a percentage of income, they are regressive by design.

Although most estates do not pay the levy, inheritance taxes were viewed as "highly regressive" by hitting ordinary families hardest.

This might mean making the tax code less regressive by expanding the earned income tax credit, eliminating tax subsidies to the rich, and improving access to quality education.

One such tax, on food, roused much opposition and was decried as regressive by many, including by some of the governor's most loyal supporters.

However, despite Radha's struggle against feudal oppression depicted in the film, her action of stopping the rebellious Birju and upholding status quo the feudal and patriarchal order is seen as "regressive" by various authors.

But when the European Commission's draft proposals for digital copyright reform were published last September, they were criticized by tech companies as regressive, and by copyright reformists as a missed opportunity to modernize ill-fitting laws to make them fit for purpose in the internet age.

I say designed because you don't introduce a regressive policy by accident.

It was the Clinton Administration that shifted tax policy in a regressive direction, by cutting the capital-gains tax in 1997.

Re "Congestion Pricing: Just Another Regressive Tax?," by Joseph Berger (column, Westchester and the Region, April 20): Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky objects to congestion pricing because of his philosophical opposition to pricing mechanisms as a means of distributing public goods.

On the witness stand in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, she delivered a list of postdivorce problems: unhappy holidays, a pre-emptive trip to Disney World and what she called "regressive behavior" by their daughter, CALEIGH, now 5.

Cable made numerous adjustments to the policy to make it less regressive, but by November he knew what had been spawned – on another trade mission to China, he watched on television as protesting students tried to trash the Conservative headquarters.