How to Use regressive in a Sentence

regressive

adjective
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  • That’s one of the most regressive parts of our tax system….
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Jones said there is growing recognition of the regressive nature of the tax.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This fixed idea of French girl style is not only regressive but classist, too.
    — Véronique Hyland, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Kanso said the cut would make taxes even more regressive.
    — Jeff Amy, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Tolling can be regressive, as a flat fee for road use takes a bigger bite out of a low-income commuters’ income.
    — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Well, how about getting your husband to be less regressive?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 May 2021
  • Inflation is, for the most part, a strongly regressive tax.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Daniels emphasizes that images like the one published to the Facebook page are regressive to the progress of racial equity.
    — Kalyn Dunkins | Kdunkins@al.com, al, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation, because poor people feel the burden more than the rich.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The main narrative thrust of season three has been the students’ battle with Hope and her regressive policies.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If the Fed doesn’t act with due speed and skill, inflation—the most regressive tax of all—will do further harm, particularly to the least well-off.
    — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • At the same time, there are dramatic human rights concerns around some of the regressive governments in place there.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In both cases, half-baked, regressive, and disproven arguments are made again and again.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • And throughout much of our history, it’s been quite regressive.
    — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The moms told Fox News Digital that the term is regressive by defining a woman on her ability to conceive a child.
    — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 28 July 2022
  • The hike should help the elderly, but the tax is regressive, meaning higher earners pay a lower marginal rate than the poor.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • And those changes, however productive or regressive, build on the foundation of the past.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
  • Progressives say the Texas tax system is regressive, that the top one-fifth of households by income pay less than their fair share of state and local taxes.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 May 2022
  • Nor can a happily-ever-after conclusion that doesn’t so much erase the regressive sins of the past so much as gently correct them with one eye on the present.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But some who have fought for equity worry that their brand building is regressive.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Tee is a good rapper with an ear for the gentlest Detroit beats and a smooth, patient delivery that gives every bar space to breathe, but some of the messages feel regressive.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The only major change since then was in 2019, when Gov. Kay Ivey and Alabama lawmakers raised the state’s gas tax, which made this regressive tax structure even worse.
    — al, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The inflation tax is also regressive, as price inflation is more of a burden to those at the lower end of the income scale than to billionaires.
    — Ron Paul, Orange County Register, 24 June 2024
  • Whispers that after all the talk of change in 2017 the pendulum is swinging back to a more regressive approach to business have spread through Hollywood.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The use of regressive language does not operate in a vacuum.
    — Essence, 29 Aug. 2022
  • From the outside, there could almost be something regressive about this idea of a loveless middle-aged woman finding renewal in the arms of a man.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • Lower-income people spend more of their income on gas—it’s one of these quote-unquote regressive taxes.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 13 July 2022
  • Critics also argue that the whole idea, like the gas tax itself, amounts to a regressive tax, one that will collect a larger share of low-income drivers’ earnings.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 20 May 2021
  • That leaves regressive property taxes as one of few options.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024

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