Sentence examples for regressive without from inspiring English sources

The UK's most respected independent tax and spend monitor, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said today the changes brought in by the comprehensive spending review would "clearly" hit the poorest harder than the better off and be "regressive" without the increase in the higher rate of tax introduced by Labour.

The rub is that the Tories imposed this new, regressive version without a single public consultation.

Only future historical experience can show whether such bonds can be produced without regressive fictions.

It has offered up the resources of a giant company like Facebook to pioneering developers like Fable and eccentric artists like will.i.am, without the regressive oversight that can reign in their vision.

So we're going to have to hopefully get through this period without some regressive trade actions out of Washington, because I think that would have the effect of delaying it.

Virtually without exception, writers who are considered progressive leaders on health care pushed for individual mandates without considering the regressive and confiscatory form they could well take, and without emphasizing that they could only work fairly in the right context.

They are aghast at arbitrary change being thrust upon their areas – from pushing new trans-council structures and elected mayors to regressive housing and planning reform – without any discussion.

But simplicity without elegance is merely regressive, and that's mostly where Battlefront's design seems to sit.

Parents must take charge and become aware of the emptiness their children feel without reverting to a regressive form of vertical and patriarchal authority, he noted.

Yet the only taxes that the Legislature can raise without a constitutional change are regressive ones like the sales tax, officials say.

For passenger vehicles, the treasurer has already found little sympathy for the policy of re-indexing fuel excise and not without cause – this is a regressive change to the tax.