regressive
பிற்போக்குத்தன
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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Whilst the first two involve 'regressive' analysis and synthesis, the third and fourth involve decompositional analysis and synthesis.
This would be a 'regressive' step and could lead to a two-tier-system, with those who could afford getting the medicine of the doctor's choice doing so, whereas poorer patients might not.
‘There would be a question in my mind as to whether or not it would be a 'regressive' step,’ said Ms Fennell.
Those who saw trade favourably previously because it shifted out low-level jobs, now see higher level service jobs being eliminated and worry that the trade is 'regressive' .
Excessive clinging, sleeping/eating disorders, 'regressive' behavior, limits testing, manipulation, and wanting to contact parents are common reactions.
These survivors are deformed, 'regressive' , bestial, and held in check by a repressive dictatorship that combines the authority of church and state.
In the very next year, John of Gaunt used the last Parliament of Edward III's reign to institute the most 'regressive' tax ever witnessed in later medieval England.
These ‘comic’ stereotypes, 'regressive' even in 1968, make the show seem not so much offensive as hopelessly dated.
Washington, which has no state income tax, has one of the most 'regressive' tax systems in the nation.
First, the social security payroll tax is 'regressive' .
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.
He said the possibility of bringing back fees, being considered in a government review of third level funding, could prove 'regressive' .
Lastly, are we really preparing for developed world status, or are we on a 'regressive' path to under-developed status?
It's an example of infantilism, a 'regressive' desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
Steeply 'regressive' taxation was flattened so that those on high incomes paid considerably less while at the same time the poor were forced to pay more.
Those writings are largely based upon Freud's assertion that firesetting in youth is a 'regressive' retreat to ‘primitive man's’ desire to gain power and control over nature.
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.
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' .
Atkinson did admit that indirect taxes are largely 'regressive' , and that eliminating them would increase effective disposable income.
‘Some towns have had their reputations damaged by the 'regressive' style of their mayors,’ she says.
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.
This 'regressive' policy will put immense pressure on the present system.
That's why sales tax is often denigrated as a 'regressive' tax.
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.
What will make television more diverse, less 'regressive' ?
Yes, it's the old 'regressive' tax argument, but it's also common sense.
It is taxation by the back door, but it is an unequal and largely 'regressive' tax.
And this is 'regressive' autism; it's not from birth.
With political power in hand, the clerics passed 'regressive' edicts.
Here it should also be noted that it is wrong to depict one's religious community as more liberal and progressive and another community as more 'regressive' and backward.
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