It was the Clinton Administration that shifted tax policy in a regressive direction, by cutting the capital-gains tax in 1997.
We should remember that benefits and fiscal policy are complex areas and that both have been moving in an increasingly regressive direction of late.
Parenthetically, I notice that Brooks does not indicate an awareness of the role that the modern "conservative movement" and its backers have played in the USA since the early 1970s, driving our nation's political agenda in a regressive direction.
But the "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act" (H.R. 2646), introduced by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA), represents the worst, most regressive possible direction for reform.
Regressive episode: I never could follow directions.
I'm also proud that [CPS] has moved in the opposite direction of some of the more regressive legislation that's been passed".
This is visible in This Too from the work's ironically self-deprecating title; Pyrrhonian-spirited motto; vacillation between several incompatible models of history's direction (progressive?, progressive and cyclical?, merely cyclical?, even regressive?); and morbid dwelling on, and unpersuasive attempt to rebut, the "skeptical" view of history as meaningless "Penelope-work".
The auto-regressive, integrated, moving average model (ARIMA) integrates the temporal size and direction dependency (autocorrelation) inherent in time-series data to better characterize changes in data over a period of time [ 47].
"Regressive and highly punitive school discipline policies have a tendency to funnel certain youth into a certain direction, and that's the basis of the school-to-prison pipeline".
I was surprised to see the stage direction credited to a young Italian director, Lev Pugliese: while scrupulously detailed, it contained a number of regressive clichés (e.g., Tosca gesturing grandly to the cheap seats before jumping off the Castel Sant'Angelo) and stock conventions that recalled the City Opera of a much earlier era.
Yet this did not mean that its approach was purely static or regressive; on the contrary, thinkers like Jean Buridan, Biagio Pelacani, and Nicole Oresme took Aristotelian physics and mechanics in new directions in medieval Europe.
