regressive
ਵਿਰੋਧੀ
definition
adjective
the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood
becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state.
Clearly we are not likely to lower regressive excise taxes on cigarettes, nor are we likely to lower the payroll tax for lower-income workers.
(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes.
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Things get rolling in the early '20s, when animators were taking their cues from the avant-garde art scene that was as progressive as the Nazi culture which crushed it was 'regressive' .
That's why sales tax is often denigrated as a 'regressive' tax.
Illicit substances can produce toxic effects on the brain and also reinforce 'regressive' behavior, a combination that may result in a personality disorder secondary to substance dependence.
Do not criticize 'regressive' behavior (returning to a previous level of development).
We are offering the Bill to the Government in the hope that they will take it on board and run with this rather than their own 'regressive' Bill.
First, the social security payroll tax is 'regressive' .
The 'regressive' aspect of the tax could be offset by ensuring that well subsidised public transport is accessible to communities that are at a disadvantage either through poverty or by living in a rural area.
There is a 'regressive' longing for the world of the perfectly nurtured child here, which is why speaking of the fallen psychiatrist and patient who act this out literally seems apt.
Yes, it's the old 'regressive' tax argument, but it's also common sense.
There is a genetic predisposition to 'regressive' autism, but I don't think it's a straight genetic problem, because I don't think we would have such a thing as a genetic epidemic.
Whilst the first two involve 'regressive' analysis and synthesis, the third and fourth involve decompositional analysis and synthesis.
It's an example of infantilism, a 'regressive' desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
With political power in hand, the clerics passed 'regressive' edicts.
And this is 'regressive' autism; it's not from birth.
If he realizes this goal, he will have succeeded in passing the most 'regressive' tax program in U.S. history.
It is taxation by the back door, but it is an unequal and largely 'regressive' tax.
If taxes are 'regressive' , taking a larger share from low-income budgets than from high-income budgets, they will contribute to increased inequality in income and consumption opportunities.
With new regimes settling in at all three levels of government, there is a pronounced opportunity, and certainly a public appetite, for the reversal of 'regressive' trends around the arts.
‘There would be a question in my mind as to whether or not it would be a 'regressive' step,’ said Ms Fennell.
These survivors are deformed, 'regressive' , bestial, and held in check by a repressive dictatorship that combines the authority of church and state.
Clearly we are not likely to lower 'regressive' excise taxes on cigarettes, nor are we likely to lower the payroll tax for lower-income workers.
Erin and Brenna had gone through 'regressive' hypnosis to try and determine what exactly they had both seen.
Atkinson did admit that indirect taxes are largely 'regressive' , and that eliminating them would increase effective disposable income.
Still, properly understood, it's hard to forget how much this 'regressive' tax takes from all of us.
Three of the states among the ten with the most 'regressive' taxes also made the list of those with the biggest deficits as a percentage of planned state spending.
The salt tax was severely 'regressive' , since it fell heaviest on the peasants who needed salt to feed to their cattle.
Respondents expressed grievances against the government for clawing back what they viewed as an excessive and 'regressive' tax on tobacco products and for their failure to redirect this income visibly towards those in need.
Another blatantly 'regressive' tax system is the social security system.
Washington, which has no state income tax, has one of the most 'regressive' tax systems in the nation.
Third, interest payments represent a perpetual income transfer from the working public to the bondholders - a kind of 'regressive' tax that makes the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.
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