Sentence examples for very regressive from inspiring English sources

"It's very regressive".

It's a very regressive solution.

To the negative, Europe's value added tax is very regressive.

"They're ideologically committed to a very regressive view.

Isn't it very regressive to see women as passive beings awaiting validation by a man?

And I don't know why, because working people pay a very regressive tax when they go to work, right?

Relying heavily on pricing can be very socially regressive too, with the rich able to absorb high environmental prices and the poor disproportionately hurt.

This would be "only very slightly more regressive", says Nathan Gardels, an adviser to the group, because the poor would get a sales-tax rebate and rich people tend to spend more on services (on accountants, lawyers, fitness instructors, etc).

In this very steep downturn, regressive taxation failed to insulate states from revenue shocks, while for most states greater tax progressivity did not amplify revenue shocks.

"We are very angry about this regressive decision of the court," he said.

The author of the bill that would have allowed the sale of human eggs for research, Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), called Brown's statement "regressive" and "very troubling".