This would reverse a recent regressive trend.
It is also, of course, very regressive, rewarding people who can afford to change their boiler with yet more money.
Scotland's Ruth Davidson, a bevy of ex-ministers, some in the cabinet and a large number of backbenchers are keenly aware of the slippery racist, culturally regressive and economically calamitous course their Brexiter colleagues are set on and are ready to fight for the soul of their party.
Of course, the regressive tax policies that Cruz, Trump, and Kasich are advocating would exacerbate inequality, rather than reduce it, but the fact that Republicans have felt obliged to address these issues at all surely owes something to Sanders and the populist wave that he represents.
Of course, the regressive mindset finds dealing with all this far too complex and out of its control.
This behaviour was recorded as a regressive episode in the illness course for 9 of the 13 who had not refused to eat prior to admission, and who returned to eating normally before discharge.
For patients with end-stage renal disease, in a poor physical condition which minimises the chance of transplantation, dialysis has become a life-saving but regressive treatment with an extended course [ 7]. Cohen et al [ 8] think that dialysis is a both a life-prolonging therapy and a death-prolonging treatment [ 8].
Inflation, of course, is a highly regressive "tax" on already stagnating wages and salaries.
Not all of these lame, regressive demos are the same, of course, but they generally follow a similar pattern: slogan yelling, then flag waving, then complete disregard from the entire political system.
Only affluent families benefit from these plans, of course, so it is yet another regressive element in a broadly regressive bill.
By the flip side of the coin, of course, we are referring to regressive evolution: the loss or degeneration of a trait.
