Sentence examples for regressive so from inspiring English sources

When the Kakwani index is negative (πk < 0), the system is regressive, so that the concentration curve of payments (Lpay) lies above the Lorenz curve of income (Linc).

Meanwhile, if Congress wants to help bolster public confidence in the economy, it should insist that President Bush's proposed tax cut be distributed in a less regressive manner, so as to make a bigger difference in the lives of lower- and middle-income workers.

Society treats it as regressive behavior, so the communities try to mask it".

This isn't always healthy, and it can lead us to be regressive, relying so much on the art of yesteryear that we forget to innovate.

Kerpen asserts the perfectly defensible claim that the 61-cent increase in tobacco excise taxes used to pay for the SCHIP expansion is regressive and so will hurt the poor in a measure designed to protect them.

To say that though is so regressive".

He said "If you can only afford an old second car you have to pay more tax… only a Labour government could have designed something so regressive".

Poorer households spend more of their incomes on household bills relative to richer households, meaning that funding infrastructure through bills is more regressive than doing so through taxation".

Similarly, the raising of the VAT rate is regressive in impact, so that cumulatively these and other measures have actually deliberately made the poor poorer.

Everyone gets the same tax cut but it's more helpful to lower-paid workers since the payroll tax is so regressive.

Otherwise, claimed Osborne: "If you can only afford an old second car you have to pay more tax … only a Labour government could have designed something so regressive".