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Recent Examples of regressive
Vance has made countless confounding, often regressive statements on families and family-friendly policies, once suggesting that asking grandparents to watch their grandkids is the solution to the country's child care crisis.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Equally, ignoring the barriers imposed historically and currently against many of our fellow humans will not only impact thousands of careers but will have a regressive effect on our abilities to work together and develop an essential glue of civil society, empathy.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2025
The federal income tax is progressive by design, whereas an all-out tariff could create regressive outcomes—burdening lower and middle-income Americans while favoring higher-income individuals and corporations.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Wealthy voters and the investing class had failed to recognize that fact and how tariffs (and other regressive taxes) tended to make the problem worse.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Equally, ignoring the barriers imposed historically and currently against many of our fellow humans will not only impact thousands of careers but will have a regressive effect on our abilities to work together and develop an essential glue of civil society, empathy.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2025
The federal income tax is progressive by design, whereas an all-out tariff could create regressive outcomes—burdening lower and middle-income Americans while favoring higher-income individuals and corporations.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Wealthy voters and the investing class had failed to recognize that fact and how tariffs (and other regressive taxes) tended to make the problem worse.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Regressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regressive. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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