regressive
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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.
example
Excessive clinging, sleeping/eating disorders, 'regressive' behavior, limits testing, manipulation, and wanting to contact parents are common reactions.
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.
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' .
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.
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.
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.
That's why sales tax is often denigrated as a 'regressive' tax.
These ‘comic’ stereotypes, 'regressive' even in 1968, make the show seem not so much offensive as hopelessly dated.
He said the possibility of bringing back fees, being considered in a government review of third level funding, could prove 'regressive' .
These survivors are deformed, 'regressive' , bestial, and held in check by a repressive dictatorship that combines the authority of church and state.
Bill was comfortable expressing emotion, but he was also bothered by Jane's persistence in maintaining the above-mentioned 'regressive' behaviors.
Lastly, are we really preparing for developed world status, or are we on a 'regressive' path to under-developed status?
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.
Whilst the first two involve 'regressive' analysis and synthesis, the third and fourth involve decompositional analysis and synthesis.
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.
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.
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.
Work with your staff on understanding the 'regressive' behaviors that may be exhibited.
It's an example of infantilism, a 'regressive' desire for boundarylessness, a plea for a love object that never disappoints.
Erin and Brenna had gone through 'regressive' hypnosis to try and determine what exactly they had both seen.
Washington, which has no state income tax, has one of the most 'regressive' tax systems in the nation.
There may be genetic factors at work, but in the case of 'regressive' autism, the primary cause has to be intimately introduced; genetics are secondary.
Apparently, the mother was unable to cope with her own alcoholism, violent domestic situation, and Jane's 'regressive' behavior.
I find their puerile, psychologically 'regressive' child's play boring and self-absorbed, but maybe I just don't understand them.
Links and colleagues rightly note that modern short-term hospitalizations have few of the 'regressive' dangers that previously existed.
But we shouldn't carry around an image of a company that is 'regressive' in its treatment of its workers.
First, the social security payroll tax is 'regressive' .
While I do have somewhat of an issue with the fact that this would be a 'regressive' tax that would fall disproportionately on the poor, the concept is a sound one.
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.
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