These are all examples of regressive politics and regressive thinking.
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These are all weirdly regressive design choices, but the most regressive is that the phone isn't water resistant.
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A carbon/income tax swap would be doubly regressive — raising a regressive tax to lower a progressive one.
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And even a regressive source could be made less regressive than the current regime of state and local taxes.
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Soda taxes help address a truly regressive disease — diabetes.
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However, working class people argued that the tax was regressive.
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Public spending on universities in developing countries is highly regressive.
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It's set in a world that's both futuristic and regressive.
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Though these are also regressive, they are much more efficient.
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They believe those who choose pads are weak, anachronistic, regressive.
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And as for the infighting, it's thrilling rather than regressive.
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"Tariffs are a very regressive form of taxation," he said.
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Sad that you took part in this awful, regressive advertisement.
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Please do not read the regressive copy about this product.
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Meanwhile, New York's policies on reproductive rights are startlingly regressive.
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But not only is this tax hidden, it is regressive.
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Those regressive policies actually make economic conditions worse for everyone.
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But worse than being personal, this latest attack is regressive.
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Progressives were cast as secretly regressive on their own terms.
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The first trailer for the controversial, regressive film just dropped.
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But the cap was embedded in a very regressive bill.
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There's also a political rationale for a more regressive tax.
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Mr. Higgins called the policies "regressive" — not reckless — "and pernicious."
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Then Bush opened up huge deficits with regressive tax cuts.
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A carbon tax is, in and of itself, somewhat regressive.
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Compared with Obamacare, the House tax credit plan is regressive.
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Ms. Harris was similarly regressive as the state's attorney general.
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Carbon taxes alone are normally regressive — they hurt the poor.
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When regressive tax policies are floated — such as increases to sales tax, which are disproportionately paid by the poor, people often don't realize that these taxes are regressive, so fairer alternatives don't get surfaced.
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But to suggest a corrupt motive for a Republican president to push a regressive tax bill ignores the fact that all Republican politicians for the past couple of generations have pushed regressive tax bills.
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We will urge our representatives in Congress to block regressive policies.
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Unlike Labour they would reverse the Tories' most regressive welfare cuts.
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Several countries introduced regressive policies, restricting access to contraception and abortion.
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Our second aim would be to make the reform less regressive.
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An acknowledgement that for years this has been regressive and stupid.
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The problem with progressives right now is that they&aposre regressive.
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The distribution of those cuts is almost certain to be regressive.
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This is a huge improvement, but the benefit is still regressive.
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"The problem with the gas tax is it's so regressive," Rep.
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It's equally revolutionary and regressive, an artistic triumph and storytelling failure.
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As it currently stands, the mortgage interest deduction is highly regressive.
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They get little from the cuts themselves, because they're so regressive.
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America's soaring inequality has a new engine: its regressive tax system.
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A forum of writers explore basic income's regressive and progressive potential.
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The veneer of modernity barely conceals regressive and racist social attitudes.
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Most trade protection is a regressive tax on lower income groups.
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This extraordinarily regressive legislation decisively favors the rich and corporate interests.
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I hope regressive racial and gender politics don't undermine this race.
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This regressive trend appears to contravene FIFA's statutory commitment to gender equality.
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Carson and Cruz have called for flat taxes—a highly regressive policy.
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These regressive behaviors have already triggered strong indignation of the Chinese people.
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Most Republican plans are shockingly regressive, despite Mr Trump's blue-collar base.
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There is too much going on in this world to be regressive.
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It was made even more regressive by Mr Berrios's encouragement of appeals.
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Consumer data show that a soda tax does indeed have regressive effects.
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Andrew Bosworth: If you're charging people money, it's going to be regressive.
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Given the growing social stratification of marriage, such measures are exceedingly regressive.
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But Trump's tax plan isn't just incredibly expensive; it's also incredibly regressive.
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Despite Florida's regressive policy, there's a ton of support from state residents.
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But viewed through a different lens, the gig economy is remarkably regressive.
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They were about the sexist and regressive idea we would be supporting.
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Brands that market exclusively to moms will look increasingly outdated and regressive.
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The Trump administration, more regressive than conservative, is trying to change that.
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The Reagan administration opened up huge deficits thanks to regressive tax cuts.
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And now Trump is opening up huge deficits with regressive tax cuts.
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Human nature doesn't change, and the appeal of regressive impulses is perennial.
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An enormous regressive tax cut could, of course, also have some upsides.
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In both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, this regressive trend is already hardening.
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The Supreme Court can defang progressive state laws with regressive federal ones.
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He pursued a progressive economic agenda while approving a regressive racial one.
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The current budget and reform process put forward by OMB is regressive.
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The revenue raisers also serve to make Trump's plan even more regressive.
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Her plan is considerably less regressive than universal debt cancellation would be.
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One basic issue here is that competition between cities has regressive impacts.
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Citing multiple brackets as evidence that the tax code is too complicated is window dressing for ideologues who support huge, regressive tax cuts, but don't want to own up to it because huge, regressive tax cuts are very unpopular.
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Even though that's a little regressive, it's still what he wants to do.
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On the whole, True Blood's attitude towards female sexuality is actually somewhat regressive.
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Make no mistake: The America Ingraham is pining for is a regressive one.
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The trouble is that governments frequently lump in criminal actions with regressive norms.
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His flagship economic policy is a regressive flat-rate income tax of 10%.
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The problem is that a carbon tax, in and of itself, is regressive.
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This regressive move would cost New Jersey at least $540 million a year.
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The other significant fact is that this tax cut would be hugely regressive.
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A universal basic income that replaced existing welfare budgets would be steeply regressive.
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The cost of inaction is the true regressive tax paid for by citizens.
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This tax penalty is one of the most regressive taxes in the code.
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The arguments are almost always infinitely regressive, and anyone's opinion on Mantle vs.
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We must all join the community of scientists protesting one country's regressive action.
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In 1994, a similar regressive tax cut proposal was enacted in our state.
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A carbon tax probably makes the most sense but tends to be regressive.
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His ideas are regressive for public safety, quality of life and the economy.
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To the American people's credit, they rejected that vision as regressive and extreme.
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The plan's enormous revenue cost is driven by several extremely regressive tax cuts.
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And when it comes to LGBTQ issues, the party is still extremely regressive.
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The tax bill isn't just a regressive giveaway to corporations and the rich.
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Mugwumps vocally rejected Blaine, recognizing the regressive effects of embracing an immoral candidate.
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So Trump is, in essence, imposing a regressive tax on his own people.
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These subsidies are highly regressive, benefiting richer groups much more than the poor.
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Society treats it as regressive behavior, so the communities try to mask it.
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These exemptions tend to be regressive, poorly targeted, and too reliant on the market.
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Even then, the way Don Shirley's sexuality plays into the script feels somewhat regressive.
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You might think romance novels are at best fluff and at worst horribly regressive.
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And enough of it to not spout utterly tone-deaf, regressive noise like that.
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The remedy you propose, to offset carbon revenues with tax cuts, is also regressive.
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And if a government were to do so, its actions could be quite regressive.
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Consequently, it has the most regressive tax system of any state in the nation.
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That's a very important channel, and it could become very regressive in bad times.
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In Florida alone, around 1.5 million people can't vote because of regressive disenfranchisement policies.
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So in that sense it's a colonial flag and Britpop was a regressive movement.
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"Britishness." This was partly because of the "regressive modernization" Hall saw under Thatcher—which
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And that could lead to the most regressive step of all: scrapping tuition fees.
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And it is regressive; it is of greatest value to those with high incomes.
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In our more enlightened but increasingly regressive age, these scenes feel the most resonant.
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It was a desperate time for the Party, which was tired, male, and regressive.
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It's hard to get more regressive than this mass handout to the economically advantaged.
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As such, the proposed policy is regressive in two ways and discriminatory by gender.
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In fact, tariffs are regressive consumption taxes, harming the poor more than the rich.
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From an artist who's been on the rise since her breakthrough, it's musically regressive.
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Tariffs end up as a regressive tax against the moderate- to low-income population.
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Just all the regressive things going on in the name of fuck knows what.
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The conscientious aesthetic of Unicole's website and materials seems aware of this regressive urge.
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Opponents had said they represented a "regressive" tax that would not affect climate change.
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"It's basically the most regressive tax imaginable," Mr. Ikenson said of the American tariffs.
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Interesting thing about [intersectional] feminism: what's radical for one might be regressive for another.
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The Tax Policy Center has found that the Better Way plan is extremely regressive.
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As coal seams dwindle, Trump's promises to revive the industry sound false and regressive.
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Thanks to NAFTA, these tariffs were abolished, removing a regressive tax on the sick.
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Yes, his cabinet appointments and first pronouncements promise regressive federal action on the environment.
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And as with the tax overhaul, the assault on public safeguards is dangerously regressive.
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But that leaves the more regressive corporate tax cuts as the bill's dependable legacy.
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Things developed from there, and then they started RAISE (Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment) as an alternative to the National Restaurant Association—which is very very regressive, very very conservative—and fight against any kind of regressive labor practices, and environmental checks.
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Many hold deeply regressive, even Stalinist views, but nonetheless tend to be formidable and committed.
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For much of his first term, Obama was poised to be very regressive on marijuana.
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"The current chief is probably the most regressive person to hold that office," Grover said.
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This especially cannot happen when the nation's leaders harbor regressive, misogynist and deeply damaging views.
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His devotion to being a Jehova's Witness led him to rigid and occasionally regressive albums.
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Dystopian jumpsuits would be my way to becoming an advanced human in a regressive world.
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"Replacing existing anti-poverty programs with a UBI would be highly regressive," the paper argues.
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This is also a plan that's destined to be extremely regressive in its fiscal impact.
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It is also less regressive than is often claimed, because of exceptions for basic goods.
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It was 365 days of oftentimes stressful, regressive politics, but that's not all 2017 was.
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A more regressive—but more lucrative—tax system, including a VAT, might enable such spending.
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On the contrary, Hollywood can be just as regressive and conservative as Donald J. Trump.
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Naturally, famed scientist/Internet hero Neil deGrasse Tyson won't let the rapper's "regressive" tweets stand.
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Trump lassoed their fear of falling economically to regressive views on race, gender and immigrants.
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Commentary about how football is a grandiose and regressive institution rife with misogyny and exploitation?
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In theory, some of this regressive effect could be mitigated by a boost to productivity.
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But although a VAT is efficient, it is also regressive, hitting poorer people relatively harder.
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The Air Quality Control Commission should demonstrate its independence by rejecting Hickenlooper's costly, regressive proposal.
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At the time, the genre was overwhelmingly male and regressive in many other ways, too.
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They're protesting a tax hike that came on top of several other regressive economic policies.
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And to justify this regressive policy, Trump is using two familiar ingredients: fear and falsehoods.
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Paris is nothing more than a very regressive tax on the poor and middle class.
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Economists also point out the tariffs are regressive and will hurt lower-income households disproportionately.
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Another great, sexually liberated song, now forever tainted by the singer's regressive and troubling politics.
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American cultural progress has gone regressive The United States is in social and cultural check.
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It's easy to dismiss Spanish developer Burning Games' latest Kickstarter initiative as regressive colonial garbage.
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It makes individuals seem oblivious to the regressive nature and sheer cruelty of their actions.
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Beyond the gaming concerns and the legal problem, the change would also be plainly regressive.
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This inclusion is at first read highly perplexing, because of the regressive attitude Sandler conveys.
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The question: Can Bibi escape the regressive world her mother has invented to protect her?
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Nor do the changes Trump has proposed change the fundamentally regressive nature of the plan.
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Having locked in a huge, regressive tax cut, Republicans would then turn to passing yet another huge regressive tax cut, and only then turn to the thorny question of what to do about the 30 million people who stood to lose their health insurance.
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Now that Congress has passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), it's time to take a step back from its regressive and mistargeted tax rules to appreciate the new law for what it really is: an even more regressive and mistargeted spending policy.
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Sales tax is a regressive tax, meaning it will affect the poor more than the rich.
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Middle-aged women are pushing against their history and the regressive cultural scripts they've been given.
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Though they may imitate the form of a traditional, regressive gender reveal, they're nothing like them.
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Female comics characters have likewise evolved in reaction to regressive tropes — in particular their gratuitous sexualization.
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Blake regularly appeared in the national media arguing that the AVMS regulations were sexist and regressive.
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Over the coming decades Republicans pursued regressive economic policies that often hit working Americans the hardest.
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But these are areas in which Donald Trump has introduced some of his most regressive policies.
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Regressive fees exacerbate inequalities and encourage patients to present themselves later on with more advanced disease.
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None of the countries with the top performing education systems have such a regressive funding strategy.
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Sometimes, regressive policies and universal benefits are welcome, even if an unequal income distribution is not.
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Monday's ruling should spell the end for many if not most of these regressive, unconstitutional laws.
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"It is a very regressive tax," said Dominic M. Calabro, the longtime president of Florida TaxWatch.
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Some biographers have seen this as a regressive streak or a sign of Brahms's military bent.
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How will the Taliban, with their outdated and regressive rules, reconcile their beliefs with today's Afghanistan?
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I am in complete agreement with Desmond about the regressive nature of the mortgage-interest deduction.
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"It was not a progressive tax bill, it was a regressive tax bill," he told Zakaria.
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"I think it's a regressive choice, and a lost opportunity for the prime minister," he said.
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The latter is a regressive tax on the low income groups that Habitat serves, Reckford says.
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"Just wish they'd exit gracefully and keep their regressive views to themselves," Tandon said on Twitter.
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She said she left the church after finding its attitude toward sexuality and social issues regressive.
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Pittsburgh rappers continue to grapple with the city's legacy of regressive racial politics and segregated neighborhoods.
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We had hoped that this time if they insisted on keeping the bill as regressive as they have that they would call it what it really is: the American Wealth Care Act (AWCA), the — a regressive tax cut for the care and feeding of the wealthy.
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This can be offset by a reduction in other taxes, like sales tax, which is quite regressive.
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Opponents had said the package of bills represented a "regressive" tax that would not affect climate change.
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A tax reform that cut rates and simplified some of the rules was also regressive and unfunded.
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"Either you are symbol of regressive forces or you decide to lead the progressive forces," he said.
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Because, as I'm sure you're aware, most holiday-centric movies adhere to traditional — and therefore regressive — values.
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Basic income is not some regressive conspiracy of the Silicon Valley elite to create a neo-serfdom.
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Today's bill is sharply regressive, despite the fact that it barely touches the top rate of tax.
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It would have a net progressive impact on the state tax code (currently the country's most regressive).
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And while some of our fetishization may feel regressive, digital media has proved remarkably adept at restoration.
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According to the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, every state in the United States is regressive.
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However, when the revenue is returned as per capita rebates, it more than reverses that regressive effect.
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"If anything, looking at the health insurance side as well would make it more regressive," he said.
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There is no undoing the impression, widespread among Trump's foes, that anything he supports must be regressive.
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But the tide has turned towards transparency, and regressive companies are on the wrong side of history.
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Despite its regressive nature, many on the left like the state and local deduction, income taxes included.
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At the same time, GOP-controlled states—including some swing states—have passed regressive, anti-voter legislation.
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Pat McCrory is being hammered for a shockingly regressive measure that he signed into law last March.
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Higher prices will be passed on to consumers, a regressive policy that inordinately affects the poorest citizens.
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"This tax is one of the most regressive taxes in the entire Internal Revenue Code," Hatch said.
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These conservative, regressive Republican politicians have the numbers, the power, and the majority to win this battle.
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"I felt horrified that someone would associate me with that bizarre, regressive anti-woman language," she said.
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If regressive tax cuts were actually paired with spending cuts, they would be unpopular and wouldn't pass.
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To reverse the system's regressive nature, we should shift our college subsidies toward funding this new pathway.
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But unlike the Senate or House tax bills, it doesn't increase the deficit, and it's not regressive.
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Some opponents of soda taxes have argued soda taxes are regressive, that they disproportionately punish poor people.
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This regressive regulatory swamp isn't a natural landscape; it grows because of forces in our political environment.
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In my review, I called out this change as regressive despite recognizing why it made sense operationally.
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Mr. Trump's tax cuts for individual Americans was regressive, helping the rich more than middle-class Americans.
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The administration is presenting a dangerous, regressive vision for America and the role of the federal government.
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David Leonhardt thinks universal free college and universal debt cancellation are both regressive policies and bad politics.
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It continues to baffle me that the DOE has a regressive fixation on wages of new graduates.
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But the report does indicate that the Trump plan will likely be very regressive, and very expensive.
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Here are a few charts that explain just how big — and how regressive — these proposed cuts are.
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States and localities could also shift more of their tax base to more regressive sales taxes. 4.
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Its approach to copyrighted content has attracted the most controversy, with critics arguing it's regressive and wildly disproportionate.
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Opponents spoke out strongly in the house, describing the measure as barbaric, regressive and no deterrent against crime.
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Holt apologizes to his friends, pledges to openly criticize John Kelly's regressive policies, and heads back to NYC.
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Even if these problems can be overcome, however, there is something faintly regressive about the world of microcredentials.
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But in many ways, films like The Perfection are anything but feminist — in fact, they're often actively regressive.
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It is also worth pointing out that dividends received from state-owned enterprises are essentially a regressive tax.
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Sculpture at Luhring Augustine posits contemporary sculpture as a corrective to politically regressive monuments in the United States.
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The Mortgage Interest Reduction is regressive — that is, it favors high-income households rather than low-income households.
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He was proposing regressive taxes (mostly tariffs and excise taxes) in order to give money to rich speculators.
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The group champions far-right causes like white nationalism and supports other various forms of regressive political movements.
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The idea of toxic masculinity, regressive social attitudes about how men should behave and express themselves, isn't new.
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"It goes in a regressive direction and it leaves the future generations to pay most of the bill."
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Those regressive distributional impacts have been used as a political weapon against virtually every energy tax ever proposed.
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Proponents say it will help reduce the prime driver of climate change and reform a regressive tax code.
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He's touted his regressive tax as the prescription for cash-strapped cities looking for a convenient financial scapegoat.
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And the formula for success may not be as complicated—or regressive—as many believe it to be.
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In some circumstances, the program can actually be regressive, offering richer benefits to those who are already affluent.
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The deduction's regressive effects has more to do with income than property taxes, according to the Tax Foundation.
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"There is a regressive political atmosphere at the top, and progressive change at the bottom," Mr. Ash said.
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On the liberal side, there has been very little reaction other than to brand it generally as regressive.
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Trump ran a campaign based on regressive policies and attitudes — anti-environmental protection, anti-abortion, pro-coal, etc.
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Calling any challenge of Islamic beliefs as "Islamaphobia," in particular, is considered part and parcel with regressive lefties.
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Times are changing, and to support a perspective like Umapagan's is not only counterproductive, it's regressive and harmful.
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Culture, really, and quite obviously, is, in the present day at least, a largely regressive and retroactive thing.
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Once you take those cuts into account, the plan becomes extremely regressive for all but upper-income taxpayers.
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But critics from across the political and economic spectrum say it is regressive and hits the poor hardest.
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If anything, this chart understates just how regressive the total ultimate impact of the Republican plan could be.
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True, this tax increase is more regressive than, say, a tax on high incomes, or a wealth tax.
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Both political parties have their friends and donors to protect, and those friends want a regressive flat tax.
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But with this progress, Argentina also became the focus of more attention for its regressive laws restricting abortion.
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And of course, raising the already regressive gas tax would disproportionately hurt those who can least afford it.
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In stark contrast to the eclectic nature of progressivism, socialism is a specific ideology that is actually regressive.
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But Abbott, who died in 1991 at the age of 93, remains a giant despite some regressive ideas.
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In the meantime, Chile's breakthrough should encourage other countries to reconsider their harmful and regressive laws banning abortion.
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I think the French policy is regressive and could potentially freeze French students in the technological Stone Age.
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This marriage of rational simplicity and technocratic complexity provided cover for regressive policies that favored corporations over taxpayers.
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To many of his fellow comics, Gillis's regressive sense of humor may be as offensive as his racism.
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The 19th-century artist Alfred Maurer, however, exemplified the pitfalls of surrendering to the regressive tendency as fashion.
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"The irony is that the Prado opened in a period of clearly regressive thinking in Spain," he added.
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That option is redirecting regressive fossil fuel subsidies, which amount to a trillion dollars in developing countries annually.
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Trump's regressive tax bill, for example, has almost certainly been a huge financial windfall to his club members.
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Only a tinge of regressive naivety was experienced in the room with 22008 bronze birds, "Primitive" (22015–218).
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Corinne was the victim of instant slut-shaming, while DeMario found himself pulled into a regressive and racist narrative.
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European welfare states generally rely on a highly regressive value-added/sales tax — usually around 20 to 25 percent.
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His books reveal extremely regressive attitudes about women in the workplace, especially when it came to his own wives.
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The idea that women don't make money at the box office isn't simply regressive and sexist — it's also untrue.
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That he lived during an earlier period of modernization in China, before it adopted regressive policies, usually goes unremarked.
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It was a show that was simultaneously progressive and regressive, where people of color were either stereotypes or punchlines.
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Interestingly enough, 1948 Boston turns out to be just as regressive as 1746 Scotland where women's rights are concerned.
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"I think a dose of hedonism is required in these times of regressive right-wingism," Gupta says via email.
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At times it feels like Megyn Kelly's Twitter "sigh" is the only appropriate response to these regressive workplace politics.
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In the 90s there used to be a lot more progressive stuff on there, but now it's quite regressive.
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It was essentially a gay-friendly gathering point for various members of the radical, regressive, or white nationalist right.
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Beginning in 2015, both the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies mounted regressive "traditional" voting blocs among Hugo members.
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Elected leaders have no incentive to pursue economic justice if the very people harmed by regressive policies can't vote.
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However, in the UK, it is yet another reminder of how regressive the British government's approach is to cannabis.
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Third, use the cost of health savings accounts, which are regressive and would no longer serve a useful function.
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Meanwhile, bloated plutocrats like Trump, the Koch brothers, the Bushes, Carl Icahn, and Paul Ryan embrace openly regressive policies.
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And as uninteresting and fundamentally regressive as Lara's tale is, that's the only story that this franchise can tell.
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Lefties look at the same data in a different way and conclude that the welfare state is nastily regressive.
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Their regressive message, cloaked in an ultramodern skin, is being spread online to a new generation of race warriors.
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Since these are generally across the board charges, they act as especially regressive taxes on the young and poor.
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This regressive trend has led to increased voter suppression all across the country and unprecedented dark money in campaigns.
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When we look closer at the breakdown of net metering customers and regular customers, the policy is downright regressive.
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We know from past regressive tax cuts that no flood of economic growth will cushion any of these blows.
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"Clearly pro-tax forces are worried that the voters are skeptical of their demands for regressive and discriminatory taxes."
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We can't afford to rely on failed trickle-down economics and regressive 20th century solutions for 21st century problems.
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Congress is notoriously dysfunctional, and regressive state governments are making it harder for voters to get to the polls.
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Staying in the racial fold, she was afforded the opportunity to blast her state's regressive labor and gender politics.
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But there's something clichéd and regressive about this apparent need to bend every male-female onscreen relationship toward romance.
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A lot of economists agree with that goal, even progressive ones (though others insist taxing consumption is inherently regressive).
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State and local taxes, which fund the majority of K-12 education spending in the US, are quite regressive.
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Some have started to question what makes this seemingly regressive reality show, now in its fourth season, so popular.
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Kim Il Sung was a communist 'cult' leader, and his son and successor Kim Jong Il showed regressive leadership.
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However, his demonstrated regressive attitude and President Trump's tough talk greatly detracted from the noble intent of the summit.
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President Trump, who championed the National Rifle Association agenda as a candidate, is expected to sign the regressive measure.
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"When we look at the property taxes in New York, they are highly regressive in my opinion," he said.
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This is Wifegate: an incredibly regressive back and forth over Cruz and Trump's spouses' looks and alleged dirty laundry.
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Again and again, one hears the objection that congestion fees are regressive, but I think this is doubly mistaken.
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What he actually did was deliver a regressive tax cut that contains special new loopholes he benefits from personally.
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This regressive streak has even shown up in his campaign, so I'd like to hear the candidate himself address it.
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Nor would the hyper-wealthy individuals who benefit personally from the Republican Party's relentless advocacy of unpopular regressive tax schemes.
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As for direct taxes, they are deeply regressive: social-security contributions account for 90% of tax liabilities for most households.
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Not so long ago the World Bank pooh-poohed spending on higher education as both economically inefficient and socially regressive.
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More than millennial women, middle-aged women are pushing against their history and the regressive cultural scripts they've been given.
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Despite the doubling of the income-tax threshold, the proposed changes to personal tax contain a lot that is regressive.
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That means getting rid of regressive payroll taxes which, in North America, could be replaced with underused taxes on consumption.
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The millionaire traders won't miss a few pennies, and the low-income earners won't be penalized with another regressive tax.
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There are two reasons why a reliance on property taxes does not automatically lead to horribly regressive allocations of money.
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Despite being run by Democrats, Cook County's property-valuation system became deeply regressive after the housing bubble burst in 2008.
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As I said, this year's design definitely feels regressive, and I hope Apple reconsiders their old ways come Series 5.
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Another way to understand our regressive behavior during the holidays is to view it through the lens of classical conditioning.
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But equally regressive policies sit deeper in the budget, including legislation that could keep undocumented immigrants from claiming tax returns.
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To prevent the policy being even more regressive, it is also withdrawn at £303,000 ($140,000) further complicating the tax code.
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David Perdue (R-Ga.) called the border-adjustment tax a regressive tax that "just hammers" low- and middle-income consumers.
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Like all acts of the totalitarian regressive left, this will blow up in their faces, netting me more adoring fans.
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Let's hope the current president's regressive policies towards coal and labor don't take us in back in the other direction.
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Even excluding the limited access, weed culture is just another example where regressive understanding about men and women's roles manifest.
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Buying a greater share of attention than you've earned politically is regressive because it favors those with the deepest pockets.
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" The beverage association said it disagreed with public health advocates "on discriminatory and regressive taxes and policies on our products.
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Carbon taxes have traditionally been criticized as regressive, since the poor spend a greater share of their income on energy.
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But many climate and environmental experts have staunchly opposed the Trump administration's regressive vision for the 47-year-old agency.
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Although Mercury retrograde has a reputation for being regressive, it allows for second chances in those areas of your life.
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Its ability to implement a regressive political agenda is significantly curtailed when voters have fair and free access to voting.
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We, along with other Republicans, have called on the party to reject the corrosive and regressive policies of Donald Trump.
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Our analysis suggests tariffs will act as a regressive tax and the poor will bear the brunt of this policy.
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But they do not include purportedly progressive states like California, New Jersey and Washington, which have comparatively regressive disenfranchisement rules.
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The Netherlands of those times was very conservative and quite regressive, especially when it came to women's and workers' rights.
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His party can't get enough of the word "progressive," but he's regressive, symbolizing a step back to an administration past.
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Meanwhile, the regressive forces that helped push the Brexit vote have not vanished and could be reanimated by the right.
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It's a boneheaded response, I know—to be delighted by something that feels so obvious and, many would say, regressive.
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Let Bill be regressive and transgressive with women he was attracted to, and he would be progressive for all women.
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The tax system in the United States has become a giant flat tax — except at the top, where it's regressive.
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The measure is regressive, and far too small a response to the income inequality seen in the United States today.
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Critics say subsidising fossil fuels is costly, regressive and environmentally damaging, but it is popular, so many countries do it.
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This leads to regressive policies that further reward the perceived winners and punish the perceived losers based on income level.
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Although such a move isn't surprising from Sessions, his regressive approach toward the war on drugs is a dangerous path.
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Environmental regulations will be suggested that are dopey or regressive or unconsciously hurtful, the way that the straw bans are.
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Bride prices typically act like a regressive tax on young men, and in some places, that burden has risen rapidly.
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As a feminist, I understood the message to be a regressive one, reinscribing the notion that women's appearances are everything.
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And GoDaddy has become, surprisingly, a lodestar among gender equity advocates — an example of how even regressive cultures can change.
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Any attempts to reinvigorate ideas of motherhood as the be-all, end-all of women's lives are misguided and regressive.
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And if evaluated fairly, the pope's positions are still highly regressive and condemnable among anyone who cares about gay rights.
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Cassidy called a possible payroll tax "regressive," and it's not clear what he and Sinema can build bipartisan support for.
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It is true that sales taxes are regressive; poor people pay a higher proportion of their income in this tax.
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Dean apologizes to Chris about the optics of two black servants at a white family's estate seeming a bit regressive.
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But the result is regressive: Wealthy people would get more help buying insurance, while poor people would likely get less assistance.
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Their methodologies stifle change and promote the most regressive instincts of party tribalism because they give a false sense of support.
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I understand now how easily anguish and despair can produce regressive, knee-jerk reactions—fueled by fear and stoked by sensationalism.
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For that reason, tariffs are often considered a regressive tax, since price increases tend to hit low-income Americans the hardest.
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These voters didn't identify with the GOP of the George W. Bush era and certainly didn't love Republicans' regressive economic policies.
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William Barber, the leader of the Moral Mondays movement to restore voting rights and fight other regressive policies in the South.
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Critics have noted that a by-product of the film's pervasive nostalgia is a set of regressive political values on race.
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But it's important to acknowledge that superb filmmaking and a regressive, even harmful narrative, can co-exist in the same work.
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And there's a distinguished philosophical tradition of arguing that regressive tax cuts are morally good and income redistribution is morally wrong.
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That program, a fairly regressive look at love, explored conventional aspects of romance by Gemma Bond, Jessica Lang and James Whiteside.
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But there's also Jness, for women; Society of Protectors or SOP for men, both for teaching Raniere's regressive ideas about gender.
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Along the way, Holliday also blessed us with tips for shattering regressive beauty standards and a few go-to skincare tips.
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But as the chart above shows, Jeb is calling for bigger, more regressive tax cuts than anything his brother ever passed.
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"Dear @GOP: The reason people liked my snap was because it defied regressive, homophobic, scary-ass losers like you," he tweeted.
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So you may be okay with a higher sales tax, which is actually a regressive tax that hurts low-income people.
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If it raises prices, that's perhaps worst of all; price increases are regressive because poor households spend more of their income.
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In the meantime, as Congress continues to push economically regressive policies, America will experience persistent, and growing, levels of income inequality.
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He argued the lottery was a "regressive" tax on society's poorest, who studies have shown for decades buy the most tickets.
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It's a behavioral theory of psychology that says that there are stimuli that trigger old memories, which can spark regressive behaviors.
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This response is breathtakingly amoral, as well as regressive, terrible decision-making — for Twitter, for the internet, for all of us.
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And in broad, sweeping statistics, it's a group that holds more regressive views toward marginalized people, including immigrants, minorities, and women.
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So, for a regressive progressive, it&aposs no longer about the content of your character but the color of your skin.
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The greatest middle finger to Trump's regressive politics and often racist rhetoric wasn't found in a gigantic wavy set piece, though.
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Despite the President's regressive actions, mayors across the country are upholding the terms of the agreement in their towns or cities.
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"Neither Muslim women nor the Indian public will forgive them for such a regressive thought," BJP spokesman Sambit Patra told reporters.
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Instead he oversaw a bipartisan plan to protect the program's solvency through a combination of regressive tax increases and benefit cuts.
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Sam Brownback's tax cuts for the wealthy, acknowledging the failure of a regressive experiment that left the state's economy in shambles.
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House conservatives closed ranks around the American Health Care Act, after GOP leaders agreed to make it meaningfully more regressive; 2.
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While they sound reasonable and benign, each resignation has an implicit message: Trump is not inclusive and tolerant; he is regressive.
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It's a regressive tax and in Republicans' minds would undo some of working and middle class tax cuts they just passed.
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"There's also literature showing these taxes tend to be regressive, affecting lower-income households more than higher-income households," Lusk said.
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But here are 10 good reasons not to fall for this big, wasteful, regressive tax cut: Like I said, not funny.
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There are those — including the Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — who oppose soda taxes as a regressive tax on the poor.
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Jeff Sessions, who resigned on Wednesday, ranked as one of the most regressive political figures to ever lead the Justice Department.
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Clinton has been asking voters to stand up to the gun lobby, a regressive political force that Republican politicians fearfully obey.
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But the devil is in the details, as architects have been unable to avoid regressive tax hikes and catastrophic reimbursement cuts.
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Thus, the brunt of this regressive policy will be borne on the backs of junior enlisted service members and their families.
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And for Cruz, who started promoting himself as Gloria Steinem, despite his more regressive positions on abortion and other women's issues.
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It's a conversation that, as Americans know too well, tends to bring a country's dumbest, most regressive opinions to the fore.
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"It's important to understand violent revolution is regressive rather than progressive—you cannot create a complex structure quickly," Bar-Yam said.
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Wave your Buffalo Bills, Einhorns, and any number of regressive stereotypes in our faces because we don't care what you think.
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" China wants other countries to do the same to the U.S. to "put an end to this outdated and regressive behavior.
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It's not regressive, but neither does it throw out the entire canon of formalist painting with a skeptical dismissal of authenticity.
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Division III athletics allowed a regressive system of affirmative action for the demographic that needs it the least: white wealthy males.
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Some see fees as a regressive tax on seniors, the sick or the poor, but these arguments do not hold water.
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But in practice, HSAs are simply one of a long list of ways in which American conservatives like regressive tax cuts.
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None of this was true, of course — instead he backed a plan from congressional Republicans for a large regressive tax cut.
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The resulting tax increases for gas and property would be regressive as well, hitting hard-working Americans right in the pocket.
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It would be a regressive move for India, which is making great strides with solar and other forms of renewable energy.
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It also makes the recent regressive steps taken to continue our nation's climate-changing fossil fuel addiction all the more frustrating.
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The surefire way to facilitate a Democrat wave this November is for Republicans to impose a regressive tax on American consumers.
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First, the bill replies to decades of worsening income inequality with arguably the most regressive tax policy change of our lifetimes.
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It was common for separated children to show regressive behaviors like bed-wetting or loss of language, according to the report.
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Or if they do, they'll just replace them with another regressive tax that harms the poor and small businesses the most.
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In other words, Macron represents a neoliberal program that offers regressive "solutions" for France's problems of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
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Will the exodus of more progressive food companies inspire reform at GMA — or will the association double down on regressive policies?
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Everybody agrees that tariffs function as a regressive tax, which means they hit lower-income Americans harder than more affluent ones.
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The result would be regressive: Wealthy people would get more help buying insurance, while poor people would likely get less assistance.
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Of course, cutting the corporate tax would make the overall tax code more regressive, but that's not due to border adjustment.
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And you'd think, perhaps, that arguments against something as relaxing and enjoyable as watching porn would be inherently regressive or misguided.
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The holiday was used to mark major milestones in a relationship strained by Denise's identification as gay and her mother's regressive attitudes.
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And what they do is make the tax cuts extremely regressive, and create net tax hikes on the middle class and poor.
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Then, having won, Republicans can pursue an agenda of regressive tax cuts and business-friendly regulation to keep the campaign contributions flying.
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But the details make all the difference in whether it's regressive or not, effective or not, popular or not, passable or not.
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But some companies have bucked that trend and have taken a more hostile, aggressive — and regressive — approach to security researchers and reporters.
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In their conversations about student loan forgiveness, Ramamurti zeroed in on the "racially regressive impact" that could have on blacks, Hamilton said.
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I find it hilarious there are so many privileged white males giving "kudos" to the University of Chicago for this regressive policy.
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Sin taxes are especially regressive, since poorer people are more likely to smoke and tend to drink more alcohol and sugary drinks.
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They have also slammed his regressive tax cuts, efforts to cut health-care benefits and inflammatory recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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Many advocates in the community are pushing for increased representation in media, and Vogue Brazil's latest campaign felt both regressive and familiar.
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Considering how Rachel brands herself, you would expect her to similarly rail against such a regressive choice for Everlasting's first-ever suitress.
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Workers are regularly exploited, passports are stolen, wages go unpaid, but the pitfalls of Qatar's regressive labour laws affect migrant footballers, too.
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Second, states and the federal government have increased how much they contribute towards school funding, offsetting the regressive effects of local taxation.
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These include children with an autistic sibling, with a regressive phenotype of autism spectrum disorder, and those who received other childhood vaccines.
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Instead, the program re-enforced regressive traits as its algorithms used data on past candidates for jobs at Amazon to establish patterns.
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Indian television, for the most part, is still populated by daily soaps and family dramas that are often criticised for being regressive.
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"This 22019-percent tax on all imports is regressive, hammers consumers, and shuts down economic growth," Perdue said in a letter Wednesday.
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The revised version of the bill significantly scales back on the tax cutting by ditching two particular provisions that were incredibly regressive.
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While the controversial casting decision of the show can't be undone, that doesn't mean the show is doomed to be racially regressive.
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The labour market is unlikely to offset the regressive effects of the Conservatives' latest welfare changes, as it did in 2010-15.
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This tax is both regressive (it falls disproportionally heavily on poorer people) and racially tinged (it falls disproportionally on non-white athletes).
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Democrats, meanwhile, pass regressive taxes that hurt working people and businesses alike, and their only response to our concerns is: drink up.
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Neither rationale honestly conveyed why Republicans sought permanent, regressive tax cuts, but at least the budget surpluses and the recession actually existed.
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"This year has just set schools back," Costello says, unsure of which regressive decade our current political climate is most comparable to.
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One problem with such taxes — aside from the glaring fact that taxes are generally unpopular — is that they tend to be regressive.
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Built on a regressive stereotype (Conrad Veidt in The Thief of Bagdad) as he is, Jafar is ripe for the fleshing-out.
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But ultimately it stands as an accurate and honest critique about who is most affected by our regressive views on women's sexuality.
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If successful, this regressive law would significantly hinder a person with a disability's right to file a lawsuit for violations of access.
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The book details how Owen, after being given a diagnosis of regressive autism at 3, lost the ability to hold intelligible conversations.
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The other countries don't prefer that route (it's regressive), but they would take it if the US were to force their hand.
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"This 20-percent tax on all imports is regressive, hammers consumers, and shuts down economic growth," Perdue said in a letter Wednesday.
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We think that it is wrong and regressive to push healthcare "reform" that takes away services and protections from the American people.
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They're overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are.
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And they suffer for their love, living in a regressive world where porn is illegal and rope classes are literally underground affairs.
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As you might expect from someone being victimized by a regressive state apparatchik, at times Hassan sounds worn down—but never defeated.
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The stories today are the same: rejection, depression, and a growing fear that regressive politics and bigoted rhetoric is harming their lives.
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The results back charges that fiscal efforts to force healthy eating are actually a regressive tax that hurts those with low incomes.
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The crime genre today is regressive: taking us backwards when it comes to how we think about crime and punishment, and race.
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Ironically, given residents typically progressive political leanings, this has regressive consequences, because it helps rich insiders at the expense of everyone else.
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What unites far-right politicians and their supporters, on both sides of the Atlantic, is a set of regressive attitudes toward difference.
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Its testament to the strength and resourcefulness of an immigrant community belies the stereotypes, assumptions and anxieties that fuel this regressive thinking.
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Outside of the context of Obamacare repeal, a regressive tax cut would be a politically difficult thing for Republicans to pull off.
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That probably requires a new revenue source, which could conceivably be a regressive tax like a VAT or a new payroll levy.
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My overexuberance in support of a player has been misinterpreted as a demonstration of a regressive attitude about an important social issue.
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There were good reasons to do so: subsidies on fossil fuels, which cost $1.4bn a year, are environmentally damaging and socially regressive.
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James Vacca, a councilman from the Bronx, characterized the fee as a regressive tax that would hit the poorest New Yorkers hardest.
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Recovery from previous disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, has had regressive effects, heightening the disparities between rich and poor and perpetuating systemic racism.
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He describes congestion pricing as a "regressive tax" on lower-income drivers, unfairly making them pay the same toll as the wealthy.
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In effect, this regressive proposal will immediately affect 13 other states (plus the District of Columbia) that have adopted California's emissions standards.
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He sought accommodation with regressive movements — whether Iran-backed Shiite or Sunni Islamist — that hold the values he spoke for in contempt.
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The public charge change is another diversionary tactic used to pit people against each other to advance a corrosive and regressive agenda.
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Instead, Trump won — so we got a big regressive tax cut and a modest increase in spending and economic growth accelerated somewhat.
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To be politically and economically sustainable, the cost increase would need to be gradual and not regressive on poorer people and countries.
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Regular people around the United States are battling energy companies, and the regressive pipelines that are threatening a decent quality of life.
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It's not surprising that cutting taxes on the rich while gutting health coverage for the poor and middle class has regressive consequences.
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While they eventually resolved their drama with a quick and easy conversation, watching the two fight and yell for multiple episodes felt regressive.
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A raft of regressive tax cuts from a protectionist-minded American administration is, to put it mildly, a risky way to provide it.
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Critics blasted the law -- which includes a photo identification requirement -- as "regressive and discriminatory" and said it was aimed at suppressing minority turnout.
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But, as the world moves toward more progressive societies (and, in cases like ours, sadly, regressive), the flaws in the competition still remain.
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Once racism in clubland is recognised, how do we go about challenging not only door policies, but the regressive attitudes that motivate them?
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And while just a few short years ago, wholesomeness might have suggested a regressive nostalgia for the 1950s, today's wholesomeness is determinedly progressive.
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Nowhere else is there a political party that combines such a regressive economic agenda with pre-genocidal levels of racism and ethnic grievance.
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Claire Williams, deputy principal of the Williams Formula One team, said this year that an all-female championship would be a "regressive step".
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I criticized Bernie's much less nuanced plan for being regressive & I got (no joke) nearly 10,000 ad hominem attacks, most with poop emojis.
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Additionally, some soda tax opponents argue that they unfairly target low-income and minority communities, so in other words, such taxes are regressive.
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Were this newspaper in charge, we would do three things to make the reform less fiscally reckless, less regressive and more pro-growth.
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They are affirming that homophobia, racial discrimination, misogyny and the backward regressive policies of the right are increasingly a relic of the past.
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Even if there were an electric car in the garage of every net-zero McMansion, sprawl's regressive legacy would persist in the economy.
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Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party, who will present the Refugees Family Reunion Bill, said Britain's "regressive" immigration laws were punishing children.
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Policymakers would do well to look at other measures — such as rethinking corporate tax breaks and regressive tax systems — rather than penalizing workers.
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But it is eerily possible to imagine Republicans pulling off the most regressive social reforms in modern history under a cloak of darkness.
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"The ban is regressive," said Koninika Roy from the Humsafar Trust, a charity that works on HIV/AIDS and with the LGBT community.
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Five justices of the Supreme Court and several state legislatures are setting fire to decades of precedent and imposing a deeply regressive agenda.
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Many people make regressive assumptions about human feces, on the grounds that eating them can cause such minor illnesses as cholera and dysentery.
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This would be extremely regressive, since money currently directed towards the poor would instead be spread out for a basic income for all.
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In Westworld, guests are invited to indulge in violent and sexual fantasies, using the regressive frontier backdrop to explore their wildest, darkest desires.
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A case in point is Philly Mayor Jim Kenney's hallmark policy: a regressive beverage tax that falls most heavily on the working poor.
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That small number can easily be overwhelmed, their regressive clamor stilled, if the rest of SFF fandom simply stands up to be counted.
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In contrast with better movies of this type, "Charlie's Angels" seemed particularly regressive, partly because it presented itself as a new fairy tale.
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But not everyone was pleased with its laissez-faire attitude toward textiles, including feminists who felt its corset shapes were restricting and regressive.
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Tailored to Mr. Trump's impulsive bluster, this document lays bare just how much the G.O.P. is driven by a regressive, extremist inner core.
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The debate about the extent to which facial feminization reinforces regressive stereotypes is not limited to academics; it has also permeated popular culture.
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Speaking in opposition, State Senator Andy Vidak said the laws represented a "regressive" tax that would not make any impact on climate change.
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The fun of a Mario or Zelda game, even at their absolute peak, masks how deeply regressive they often are at their heart.
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The latest installment finds our wayward wanderer in a future both advanced and regressive, but as usual here, the less said the better.
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Lower-income Americans pay more of their incomes in payroll taxes, given it's a regressive tax, or one applied at a uniform rate.
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When it came to defining issues like busing and, subsequently, mass incarceration, Biden was an accommodating enabler in the regressive politics of race.
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"Any pressure against journalists based on the content of their reporting represents regressive steps that South Sudan cannot afford to take," he said.
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If and when CBS pushes back against Trek productions now, it can't defend regressive decisions with ratings fears or limited options for profitability.
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Here we are invited to feel fear for a miscegenous relationship: a regressive, traditional, despotic East and a progressive, modern, free-spirited West.
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In November, some six million New Yorkers voted, but millions more did not, under our state's regressive voting laws, which depress voter participation.
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But it's a model for a way to cut corporate rates and simplify the code while not making the tax code more regressive.
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But it's worth noting that despite important gains toward LGBTQ equality in the US, Chick-fil-A's seemingly regressive stance has remained strong.
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The men in this article can blame only one thing for their alleged woes: their own regressive views and behavior in the workplace.
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Mr. Weinstein's story about Evergreen's regressive campus culture fit neatly into many misconceptions about the "new left," so it seemed to go unquestioned.
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"American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience," she wrote.
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No one can guarantee that will boost the trend, but it has a much better chance of doing so than regressive tax cuts.
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Everything turns on how one views immigrants or those who don't appear to belong to the core of some regressive idea of Englishness.
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It was simply the result of regressive behavior from a public servant who would rather please internet service providers than serve the public.
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Although a gas tax is regressive, a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the costs to average households are relatively small.
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Moreover, the Republican plan bears some family resemblance to the X Tax, David Bradford's version of a consumption tax that isn't necessarily regressive.
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Thus the corporate tax morphs from being progressive, dependent on wealthy individuals, to strongly regressive, falling mostly on lower and middle class people.
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It's another thing when those difficult places intersect with real marginalization — when they have the potential to reinforce regressive and harmful social norms.
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In practice, this policy would function as a severely regressive tax, transferring money from poor households to the pocketbooks of politically trendy companies.
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That made sense; it cost around $1 trillion over 0003 years and was one of the most deeply regressive parts of Trump's plan.
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With the guy who helped create Jackass, Jeff Tremaine, as the director, there was truly no chance this would be anything other than regressive.
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It fails to engage or entertain, choosing instead to promote regressive ideas about consent, marriage and gender – all in the guise of a romance.
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That's both a testament to her natural skills in front of the camera and a sad statement on the regressive nature of movie casting.
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This is language not usually heard from Sinn Fein, whose new leader, Mary Lou McDonald, described the dissidents as "warped, negative, regressive, dangerous people".
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Was that meant to be a visual cue to the watcher that maybe their relationship is regressive not of the dynamic that she wants?
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Making those changes in the context of a political system that, instead, seems poised to enact a large regressive tax cut is another matter.
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But people still cling to their slut-shaming logic, no matter how regressive and just plain unproven it might be—people like Nancy Pelosi.
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In terms of revenue sources it's one of the most regressive out there, with the poor buying a vastly disproportionate share of lottery tickets.
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For those who are employed by businesses above a certain size, America requires employers to provide private insurance subsidised by a regressive tax break.
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It's often a zippy, fun time, however—that is, if you can convince yourself to overlook its self-congratulation and mildly regressive gender politics.
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France has Europe's highest rates of marijuana consumption by some estimates, yet it also some of the most regressive marijuana laws on the continent.
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Young, progressive, urban Indians — precisely the kind that make up Tinder's core audience — saw the ad as regressive and lashed out on social media.
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And while making politically incorrect jokes that offend people is absolutely not, in itself, a problem, telling regressive rape jokes in 2017 definitely is.
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They're being contemplated as ways to finance a tax cut for capital owners, and thus, on net, it amounts to a deeply regressive change.
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Under those circumstances, enacting a vast, regressive, polarizing agenda wouldn't be a masterstroke—the product of the hard work of persuasion and consensus-building.
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The political question will be how Trump supporters respond to a regressive consumption tax that will hurt the poor and working class the hardest.
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Of course, judging Wallace by the people who read him—even judging him by his own, often extremely regressive political views—is very unfair!
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It doesn't involve working conditions (which can and should be legislated), but subjective, and ultimately regressive, assumptions about what constitutes a positive female image.
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I'm outraged by America's regressive climate change policies, especially since global warming disproportionately impacts women, and I don't feel disingenuous for suddenly caring more.
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Municipalities need to fund essential government services, but raising revenue from fines and fees is unfair and is a particularly regressive form of taxation.
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He also has to be understood in the context of a game that is otherwise firmly regressive when it comes to anything near sex.
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Part of the problem is that those tax cuts were highly regressive in nature, with most of the benefits going to the wealthiest Americans.
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Surely it is, but it is crucial to know precisely how, so as not to repeat the last 50 years of regressive economic policy.
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Then there's the fact that taxing pass-through income at a lower rate is regressive, even if it didn't encourage people to reclassify income.
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And then when George W. Bush became president, Greenspan changed his view on deficits and suddenly became a huge fan of regressive tax cuts.
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Ms. McDonald strongly denounced the republican dissidents who are suspected in the latest Londonderry violence as "warped, negative, regressive, dangerous people," the B.B.C. reported.
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So, what will it take to end this destructive dynamic of mutual reinforcement by the largely liberal establishment insiders and the regressive nationalist outsiders?
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The paper argues this dividend would "lock in political and public support for fighting climate change," rather than being viewed as punitive and regressive.
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The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum called them "regressive," while the US-India Business Council warned of the "harmful implications" of the new policies.
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And every recent administration, going back to Al Gore's reinvent-government initiative, has looked at ways to pare back the regressive and redundant ones.
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Particularly problematic is the fact that import tariffs are almost always regressive in nature, meaning that lower-income Americans would be hit the hardest.
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The Cadillac Tax is very regressive: a 40-percent excise tax (regardless of income) on every dollar of health benefits above a certain threshold.
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The regressive measure is being offered by a majority party that regularly waxes poetic on the campaign trail about the wisdom of local government.
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But some actions that voting-rights advocates call regressive actually would improve election integrity and efficiency, Mr. von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation said.
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It would be a regressive step to sanitize and anglicize Markle -- her American dulcet tones are a crucial part of what make her sparkle.
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I knew deep down this was a dated and regressive impulse, but it persisted until the moment I committed to a three-figure vibrator.
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But it still faces an uphill slope in Albany, particularly among liberal Democrats in the State Assembly who view gaming as a regressive tax.
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All of this research suggests that priming white people to so much as think about race, even subconsciously, pushes them toward racially regressive views.
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Oster found that the regressive nature of the lottery as a revenue source is driven by the downscale demographics of very frequent lottery players.
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Outside America, value-added taxes have been imposed on consumption, producing a welcome increase in the tax system's efficiency but also making it more regressive.
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As it is, the film is technologically advanced, but it is as regressive in its politics as any of the company's hand-painted fairy tales.
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While initial efforts to welcome Michelle Jones and Chelsea Manning illustrate Harvard's ideological diversity, the bottom line is that all too often, regressive forces win.
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Were such tariffs to be "effective," then the tariffs would impose a regressive consumption tax of $203,100 over 5 years on the typical U.S. household.
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This also feeds into Murray's proposal to devolve the entirety of the government's social supports into a more regressive version of a universal basic income.
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Instead, Atypical has Julia go on a route that seems shockingly regressive since the twentysomething-year-old never deliberates for a second about the pregnancy.
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Despite small, symbolic concessions—for the first time, women were able to stand in 2015's municipal elections—life for Saudi women remains extraordinarily regressive.
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Though it has been clear all along that the tax cuts go mainly to richer Americans, there is disagreement over just how regressive they are.
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Thanks to social media and a growing understanding of women's issues, there is less tolerance in our society these days for sexism and regressive comments.
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But that law was blocked last year by state legislators, some of whom argued that it imposed a regressive tax on the poor, and Gov.
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They argue that the exclusion is regressive, creating a tax benefit only for higher-income people who are more likely to get coverage at work.
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They see Clinton as the embodiment of a political establishment that serves the economic elite, and they reject Trump's sexist, racist behavior and regressive platform.
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When NATO exploited the Arab Spring to overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, he wrote the consequence would be "disintegration" as a regressive Islamism captured Libya's institutions.
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In reality, she was a regressive force who, through means ranging from devious to outright despicable, held back women's progress in the industry for decades.
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Despite these regressive rollbacks in women's health, the good news is that some state legislatures are actually working to push access to birth control forward.
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The Democratic Party's wins across the country yesterday weren't just a repudiation of President Donald Trump's regressive agenda, but an endorsement of progressive climate policy.
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"This draft policy presents a very regressive and narrow vision of forest governance and management," said Tushar Dash of the advocacy group Community Forest Rights.
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Critiques to the opposite effect are regressive, and wholly contradict the tenets of liberalism—freedom and autonomy—that the queer liberation movement once closely embraced.
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In fact, tariff hikes are really regressive and counterproductive tax hikes that put the gains made from President Trump's most recent tax overhaul at risk.
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Instead of imposing a regressive tax on consumers at the checkout counter, however, the government would collect that money after it was spent, from businesses.
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Extreme forms of this include abolishing presidential term limits, which was done in China; and regressive constitutional reforms to expand presidential power, like in Turkey.
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So a regressive soda tax is a bad way to promote health because it reduces the disposable incomes of those it is meant to help.
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Independent publications have begun to flourish in spite of this entrenched, top-down media foodchain, and the state's regressive attitudes toward journalists and free speech.
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This isn't always healthy, and it can lead us to be regressive, relying so much on the art of yesteryear that we forget to innovate.
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That's why white college educated suburban women hate him: he is the political embodiment of the regressive threat to the evolution of postmodern female identity.
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Democrats and Republicans agree that we should end this regressive policy, which predominantly benefits people who are wealthy enough to get health insurance at work.
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But instead, he adopted a conventional regressive economic agenda and in doing so won the hearts of the GOP donor class and the conservative establishment.
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President Trump's evident disinterest in even trying to reorient Republican governance away from priorities like welfare state retrenchment and regressive fiscal policy underscores the point.
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The Hall of Famer Amélie Mauresmo called it a "disgrace," while the French player Alizé Cornet mocked the regressive start to a showcase of innovations.
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The House tax bill is wildly regressive; the Senate bill actually raises taxes on most families, while including a special tax break for private planes.
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The other problem is that payroll taxes are regressive, so it's a bigger chunk for people with low or moderate incomes than high income workers.
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While on many issues they embrace globalization and often send their children to be educated abroad, at home they passionately defend regressive views toward women.
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The editorial board pressed him on his (oddly) regressive economic proposals, his history in college test prep and how he'd take on Silicon Valley monopolies.
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This probably helps explain why some people in this group talk constantly about the regressive left but far less about the threat from the right.
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This was obvious pandering to regressive generals and right-wing zealots as well as an effort to shift the focus from his dysfunctional White House.
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We're a city once again at odds with the White House and its random and regressive edicts — with what it exalts and what it ignores.
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Besides, there's nothing regressive about plowing toll revenue into improvements for mass transit, which is how most low- and middle-income New Yorkers get around.
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The latest version retained two taxes from the Affordable Care Act aimed at the wealthy and was "much less regressive," the center's Howard Gleckman wrote.
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But some, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, argue that transaction taxes are regressive, driving up the amount everyday investors pay on their retirement funds.
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Warren has proposed one specific approach: progressive taxes on the super-rich and the corporate sector but also a surprisingly regressive "head tax" on companies.
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And when these officials respond to the decisive voice of the people with regressive machinations, they should themselves be dealt with at the ballot box.
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Mr. Biden's conduct and that of the panel were deeply disturbing and helped give us one of the most regressive justices in Supreme Court history.
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We find that up to 70 percent of extreme poverty could be eliminated by redirect public spending from such regressive subsidies to the world's poor.
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All indications are that the spending cuts Trump is considering would be much more regressive than any of the scenarios the Tax Policy Center modeled.
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The lottery is a famously regressive source of state government revenue, with the poor spending a much larger share of their income on lottery tickets.
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Relatively little of that debt accrual took the form of middle-class tax cuts — Bush's regressive tax cuts, a couple of wars, a major recession, and a new round of regressive Trump tax cuts were the bigger player — but if we'd wanted to enact a big middle-class tax cut in 1999, we could have just done that, rather than fussing around with exotic taxes.
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Mayim Bialik is officially on an apology tour following the publication of her New York Times opinion editorial, which many read as slut-shaming and regressive.
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Created by two white authors in 1966 — the legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby — Black Panther was a bizarre mix of progressive ideas and regressive cliches.
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But stars and social media commenters noted that the regressive policy was especially ironic given how may of the films focused on issues of women's equality.
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"It's a very regressive reform: the top one percent of earners will get 40 percent of the benefits," he said at an event in Mexico City.
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"In a Breitbart post, Yiannopoulos said, "Like all acts of the totalitarian regressive left, this will blow up in their faces, netting me more adoring fans.
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School funding in America may not be as regressive as many of its critics contest, but the model still lags behind that of other rich countries.
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"This is shockingly regressive for a country with the 3063rd highest number of active #volcanoes in the world," tweeted volcanologist Simon Carn at Michigan Technological University.
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This new tax code would be called a "regressive tax" as low-to-middle income earners will receive very little benefit from the Trump tax plan.
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And although Germany has the most unequal distribution of wealth in the euro zone, the tax system relies heavily on regressive indirect taxes such as VAT.
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The Obamacare replacement bill currently moving through the House cuts both Obamacare taxes and benefits, resulting in a regressive redistribution of wealth, the Urban Institute finds.
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The problem is that a 'Hollywood Boycott' would hurt workers who didn't ask for women's bodily autonomy to be stripped and don't support this regressive policy.
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The rate is regressive and the accommodation and food services sector has seen the second highest average employment growth since it was brought in, it said.
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There's a lot of danger hiding in assumptions that the past somehow got it right—like the regressive turn we're seeing in public life, creativity, politics.
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It is also highly regressive: It is much more valuable to the affluent, who have higher marginal tax rates and, in many cases, more expensive insurance.
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With Democrats completely out of power in Washington and in half of the states, such organizing and protesting will be vital to fighting Trump's regressive agenda.
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The tax system relies on VAT for nearly half of revenues—and VAT, though efficient, is regressive, so the state should take less or redistribute more.
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If we and other wealthy countries pursue regressive policies, it will simply create political space for China to act as the avatar of the rising world.
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Instead, the Obama oil-barrel tax is the most regressive tax imaginable, in that it targets a core essential that doesn't discriminate between rich and poor.
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It's a lazy, regressive device on its own; but with Catherine's developer Atlus, it comes with a storied history of degrading their trans and queer characters.
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Still to come are new "carbon dividends" that would be needed to offset potential regressive effects of the "Green New Deal" that would raise energy prices.
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Instead of bludgeoning the already poor with regressive taxes, policymakers should try to get out of their way and allow them to improve their own lives.
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This regressive trend threatens to change the way we use the web and, barring a congressional intervention, there's not much we can do to stop it.
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Popular liberal icons Elizabeth Warren, Attorney General Sally Yates and Kirsten Gillibrand have been on the front lines of opposing regressive nominees to key administrative posts.
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Those words are also problematic for another reason: They presume that other women might be envious of the bump itself, which is both silly and regressive.
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" Ms. Desai called the ruling "a victory over a society and people with regressive mind-sets which have tried to keep women oppressed socially for centuries.
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If you were worried primarily about a new round of regressive tax cuts offset by cuts to the social safety net, you should breathe easy today.
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In his interview with Klein, he justifies the regressive nature of the tax by noting that the highly progressive nature of the Freedom Dividend offsets it.
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The economic and migrant crises, together with the recent terrorist attacks linked to ISIS, have fueled an alarming surge in regressive nationalism in many European countries.
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At the same time, self-consciously rejecting even harmless or positive ingrained ideas about women for the sake of doing so feels ridiculous, maybe even regressive.
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"In Ferguson, TIF bonds are serviced by regressive taxes and fines levied on black motorists," according to a 2015 analysis by Walter Johnson in The Atlantic.
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What they're saying: "You look at the numbers and it's very similar to the Gilded Age... Taxation was very regressive during the Gilded Age," Zucman said.
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Panic from the law-and-order crowd is nothing new in New York, which has often been surprisingly regressive on issues of criminal justice and policing.
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The gas tax has adverse impact, a very regressive impact, on the most vulnerable within our society; those who depend on jobs, who are hourly workers.
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Preliminary analysis of the Trump "plan" suggests a similar skew of tax cuts to the top of the income distribution; his campaign proposals were highly regressive.
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This didn't stop him from winning the Republican nomination, their votes in the election and the support of Republican lawmakers for his xenophobic, regressive policy agenda.
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The progressive case for deregulation is rather straightforward: regressive regulations harm those on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder to the benefit of entrenched interests.
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But despite its impeccable economic logic, a stand-alone carbon tax has proven to be a political dead end, largely because it is unpopular and regressive.
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"The general assembly has made a reputation for itself for being regressive, of being anti-worker, of being anti-LGBTQ people," Hirschy said in an interview.
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Sales taxes are one of the most regressive sources of tax revenues — they take a greater share of income from poor people than from wealthier ones.
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Sales taxes are one of the most regressive sources of tax revenues — they take a greater share of income from poor people than from wealthier ones.
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"Girl" asks a provocative question: Have we gotten to a place where a film can explore dark aspects of an individual trans character without feeling regressive?
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Peach was a rad playable character in Super Mario 3D World, as was Rosalina, so going back to the drawing board on gender seems pretty regressive.
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It also hints at something more dangerous — not least because the president has already begun translating his regressive views into policies that directly threaten minority groups.
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It certainly makes sense to use a portion of the revenue to shield middle- and low-income taxpayers from the regressive effects of a carbon tax.
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Closer "Violent Crimes," for example, drew ire in June for having regressive ideas about gender, but the creative problem is that Kanye's verse is staid, plodding.
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Even films that do away with one of rom-com's most persistent qualities (white leads), we're still left with one big regressive plot point (underdeveloped gay sidekicks).
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But I also can't argue too much with those who feel both characters are regressive stereotypes who constantly tie The Simpsons to a past worth moving beyond.
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Republicans have been much more hostile toward the policy needs of unions and believe that regressive policies, such as supply-side economics, are better for the economy.
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And expanding the use of HSAs would likely be a regressive policy, advantaging wealthier Americans who have money to contribute to their HSAs in the first place.
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Yet since neither party breaks from the regressive changes to benefits policy that are in the pipeline, the poorest Britons seem certain to suffer big income cuts.
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Putin's approval of this law is a disturbing reminder that when people in positions of power hold regressive views of women, the consequences can often be catastrophic.
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Like most Republicans, he is proposing an enormous, highly regressive tax cut that would create a large budget deficit and disproportionately line the pockets of the wealthy.
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The upshot is a plan that is costly and regressive, yet paired with other commitments around entitlements, military spending, and constitutional amendments that make it completely impossible.
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Opponents counter that such levies are a fun-killer, souring people's pleasure, and regressive, because poorer people spend a bigger share of their incomes on soft drinks.
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Given that children internalize gender discrepancies and attitudes from an early age, having a balance would help counter them imbuing a regressive mindset from an early age.
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A common gripe is that they are regressive, punishing poorer people, who, for example, smoke more and are less able to cope with rises in heating costs.
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Reducing the sales tax, in combination with the WFTR, would more than offset the otherwise regressive pocketbook impact of the carbon tax on the lowest-income quintile.
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And although this regressive ideology was built around preexisting white nationalist rhetoric, it found its way into the mainstream disguised as memes, fake news, and populist conspiracies.
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If you're thinking that might be OK if it at least transfers money from the rich to the poor, you'd be wrong because it is highly regressive.
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These harshly regressive trickle-down policies caused the Great Depression under GOP President Hoover and the great recession and financial crash under GOP President George W. Bush.
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Thus, at current oil prices, a $213 per gallon tax hike would be nothing more than an effective sales tax hike, and a regressive one at that.
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The American Health Care Act is a misnamed, regressive tax-cut bill meant to fool you into thinking its primary purpose is improving the health care system.
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Finally, besides being a terribly inefficient job-creator and having only weak real-world effects in boosting productivity, a strategy of cutting corporate rates is unambiguously regressive.
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While both Democrats and Republicans have both implemented regressive prison policies, the GOP under Trump is unapologetically opposed to any reform measure to make police more accountable.
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Set aside as well the silver-lining implication that Trump will not sign regulatory rollback bills or regressive tax cuts into law in a fit of pique.
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Worst of all, for Ryan and Trump, is the fact that these regressive and destructive alterations still don't seem to have the support of the Freedom Caucus.
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The House will take it up again either on Friday or early next week, and probably with significant changes that will make the bill even more regressive.
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After five disastrous years, Brownback's historically ambitious plan to make real every Norquistian's sweetest fantasy has been beaten back to the regressive hell from whence it came.
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And Canada has been forced to respond diplomatically to a Trump administration that has made highly regressive proposals in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations.
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Shashi Tharoor, a lower house lawmaker from the main opposition Congress party who has raised several concerns over the bill, called it "regressive and fraught with flaws".
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However, in a number of countries progress has been stymied or is even regressive, and in America there are vast problems that have yet to be resolved.
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Specifically, the main target of reform should be the web of regressive, special-interest privileges that stifle dynamism while redistributing wealth and income up the socioeconomic scale.
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Indeed, nothing about Ryan's actual policy agenda of sharply lowering the material living standards of low-income people in order to finance regressive tax cuts had changed.
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We've reached a moment in pop culture when the generally regressive genre of the chick flick has turned to incorporate trendy, quasi-feminist critiques within its purview.
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In addition, many regressive regulations are made in obscure places with limited participation, such as state licensing boards and town councils in charge of approving new housing.
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"In fact, from a purely partisan standpoint, it would install someone who would competently pursue a truly regressive progressive," he added, referring to Vice President Mike Pence.
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The progressivity of income taxes has decreased, reliance on regressive consumption taxes has increased, and the taxation of capital has followed a global race to the bottom.
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But to avoid unintended consequences, Republicans and Democrats alike should look closely at the carbon fee and dividend proposal to ensure that carbon taxes are not regressive.
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Worst of all, they have passed, and will continue to pass, regressive laws that undermine our democracy, even as they subvert the Constitution they claim to defend.
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In the United States, the most common objection is that road pricing is regressive: Rich people get to drive alone while the masses huddle on a bus.
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This crew is laughing all the way to the bank as white working-class voters install a new regime based on regressive tax cuts and bank deregulation.
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After a period of thaw, regressive trends in China's treatment of civil society began slowly more than a decade ago, but picked up after Xi took office.
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On the one hand, suggesting to fans that Lando is queer without actually delivering on that promise is a deeply regressive move, commonly referred to as queerbaiting.
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The result is what political theorist Francis Fukuyama compared to a "regressive tax" — the elites who play the game get richer at the expense of the rest.
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The end result is what political theorist Francis Fukuyama compared to a "regressive tax" — the elites who play the game get richer at the expense of the rest.
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Open discourse is becoming a radical act as technologies designed to create a new digital commons are daily molded into megaphones for the most powerful and regressive voices.
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In policy terms, Republicans will move a regressive tax cut, and they'll seek to partially offset it with cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other means-tested assistance programs.
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There's a long tradition in right-of-center economics of arguing that regressive tax cuts will boost economic growth by providing more incentives to work, save, and invest.
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Not because of what she's written or said — regressive, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is equal parts harmful and outdated, and those posts have been widely denounced for good reason.
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Here's Gérard Araud, French ambassador to the US, defending the ban: Moving to read so many supporters of the submission to a patriarchal, regressive and mysoginistic clothing code.
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In terms of basic fairness, there's almost nothing you could do to pay for that agenda that wouldn't be regressive, and limiting the mortgage deduction is no exception.
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Bernie supporters: lol your a corporate stooge die of cancer idiot I criticized Elizabeth Warren's debt forgiveness plan for being regressive & I got a data driven debate w.
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They did not, for the most part, argue about whether it was morally acceptable to pass a regressive tax reform after years of wage stagnation and rising inequality.
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The crucial criticism of free college plans is that they are "regressive," which means they deliver more public funds to higher-income families than to low-income families.
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But to many fans and critics, including me, Bran winning the game of thrones hardly seemed like a step forward for Westeros; instead, it felt shortsighted and regressive.
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Thus a flurry of profiles in Elle (ladies), Town & Country (rich people), Cowboys & Indians (mild racists), Men's Health (jacked dudes), Playboy (regressive dudes), and Nylon Guys (hip dudes!).
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When asked about this seemingly regressive lineup at a press breakfast, CBS Chief Les Moonves replied that he thinks CBS is "doing a very good job," EW reports.
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Though the proposal was subsequently withdrawn, Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, resigned on the grounds that it epitomised the government's regressive approach to deficit reduction.
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The results stunned pro-democracy campaigners, who had believed that the charter (Thailand's most regressive yet, drawn up without public participation) would face fierce opposition in the polls.
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But perhaps the most damaging is a separate set of accusations that Democrats plan to use to portray Puzder as having a troubling and regressive attitude toward women.
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You have to go back to the Woodrow Wilson administration to find an example of a legislative exercise as opaque and regressive as the Republican health care bill.
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As a recent successful strike by Loyola University Chicago instructors demonstrates, collective organizing and bargaining tactics are still the most effective way to counter academia's regressive labor politics.
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Whether it's getting to zero waste or reaching 100 percent renewable energy, these are herculean tasks, made more difficult by recalcitrant and regressive federal and sometimes state governments.
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Going into the mid-term elections, the Trump administration might be handing Democrats another issue by pushing for a further regressive tax cut without even getting congressional approval.
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Mr Boren, an old-fashioned centrist who is now president of the University of Oklahoma, calls sales taxes "regressive" and would have been "thrilled" if lawmakers had acted.
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There ought to be bipartisan agreement on undoing what we might call "regressive regulation"—regulatory barriers to entry and competition that work to redistribute income and wealth upward.
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"We may disagree with some in the public health community on discriminatory and regressive taxes and policies on our products," the American Beverage Association said in a statement.
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One after another, women and girls with various names reveal episodes of their lives in regressive chapters, rewinding toward an implied mysterious, violent and formative point of origin.
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After nearly 13 months, the commission has made no recommendations, and the city's regressive property tax system is likely to continue through the end of de Blasio's mayoralty.
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Clean energy-progress is the real job-creator — regressive policies bringing us back to fossil fuels of the past are nostalgic and misleading, and betray our national interests.
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These deeply troubling, regressive changes would be particularly harmful to workers in the service industry, currently 80 percent of our economy and growing faster than any other part.
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But the zen mantra on Capitol Hill isn't about Trump or party unity per se, but the regressive tax cuts and restored Supreme Court dominance his victory portends.
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Most importantly, Britney is inhabiting the identity carved out for herself some 16 years, and it doesn't feel regressive or like she's desperately trying to tread old ground.
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It has also raised expectations of future inflation, as investors anticipate a shot of fiscal stimulus, mainly from a huge, regressive cut in personal income and estate taxes.
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Fandom is full of flaws, and full of problems, and often deeply regressive, but it's also so much more than mainstream culture has ever given it credit for.
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Congestion pricing — even if it could pass the Legislature — amounts to a regressive tax that will fall significantly short of providing the M.T.A. with the money it needs.
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Should former Vice President Joe Biden enter the race, he can count on having to explain his role in championing regressive crime legislation in the 1980s and '90s.
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"Those kinds of regressive taxes lead to the creation over time of increasingly more disparate wealth and income inequality," said Joseph E. Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University.
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As hard as it's been to say goodbye to all these fascinating characters, losing them would have been less bitter had their storylines not furthered a regressive narrative.
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A "Welcome to Orania" sign announces the private and regressive Afrikaner-only community in the Northern Cape, which was founded in 1990 in the name of protecting tradition.
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"Satanic Panic" is a familiar story, cooked up from old-horror standbys — the plucky virgin, the devilish matron — but its throwback "final girl" narrative avoids being merely regressive.
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President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are zealously committed to the National Rifle Association's regressive "safety" agenda of marketing guns to more and more citizens.
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This means two things: First, the direct, short-run effects of the TCJA are steeply regressive, providing much larger tax cuts to the already rich than everybody else.
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Our Democratic legislators have not hesitated to use billions of dollars to build an N.F.L. stadium or to raise regressive sales taxes that hit the poor the hardest.
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" On Thursday, Hatch also described Obamacare as one of the most "regressive taxes" in the tax code, especially because lower-income families were "paying most of the freight.
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" Matt Bruening, the president of the progressive think tank People's Policy Project, told POLITICO that the formula Warren came up with is "most regressive of all the possibilities.
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" Sperling, who worked under the Clinton and Obama administrations, called Trump's policy "the most risky, reckless and regressive tax proposal ever put forward by a major presidential candidate.
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In a world where lawmakers still appeal to common sense to promote regressive policies, critique remains an important tool for anyone seeking to move past the status quo.
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These actions have been decried by liberals as being regressive and are a clear attempt to roll back some of the progressive policy achievements of the Obama administration.
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How can a regressive fantasy take me to a purer state when I'm forced to cycle again through the trials, failures, and bitter lessons of my own life?
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In embracing 401(k)s over other kinds of retirement policies, we've ended up with a regressive policy that doesn't even accomplish what it sets out to do.
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Guo told Motherboard in a phone call that people in China generally see congestion pricing as regressive when compared to, say, China's license plate lottery and alternating-plate system.
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I've been trying to think about how to do it in a way that's also not regressive, by imposing substantially more cost on low-earners who currently receive Medicaid.
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He supports regressive tax policy and intolerant immigration policy, to say nothing of his political affect, which is more brutish and politically incorrect than many conservative talk-radio hosts'.
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Sleeping to forget that everything is bad and idiot regressive fascists are coming into power all across the world and the planet is going to explode in our lifetimes?
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Whereas labour shortages spurred by a hot economy—while it lasts—may increase equality and boost productivity, restrictions on the supply of professionals act as a permanent regressive tax.
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And because marginalized groups often act as Patient Zero for regressive new laws, it will be no surprise when this new approach to censorship eventually spreads across the internet.
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Such a fee is, of course, regressive — it will impact low-income families more than higher-income families because the fee represents a larger chunk of the former's income.
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For the all revolutionary ways the show portrayed sex, gender, and sexuality, it harbored an equal number of regressive attitudes and stereotypes that are downright offensive to watch now.
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By itself it would be regressive, not to mention politically poisonous (newspapers' outrage over VAT on baby food would be matched only by their fury at VAT on newspapers).
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Free college is regressive relative to a hypothetical alternative in which the same pool of money is handed out flatly to everyone regardless of whether they go to college.
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Basic income is not some regressive conspiracy of the Silicon Valley elite to create a neo-serfdom where the entire population only earns a maximum of $12,000 per year.
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It's a half-savvy, half-suspect way of making the sensei's regressive views on gender and masculinity more believable, even as they're issued with a cartoonish lack of subtlety.
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By comparing a country's Gini coefficient before and after taxes and transfers, a rough gauge can be created of how progressive (or regressive) its tax and benefit system is.
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But the reason it reaches out beyond that base -- and dominates newspaper columns, where intellectuals lament the regressive gender politics -- is that the upper-middle classes love it, too.
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It's regressive; we've created a tax system wherein the people with good jobs are getting their health care subsidized by the people with worse jobs or even no jobs.
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The budget was regressive, cutting welfare as it reduced income tax for the top 15% of earners and capital-gains taxes mostly paid by the asset-rich (see article).
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"It's taking care of itself" It's hard to focus on regressive tax cuts if the president of your party is at the center of a major national security scandal.
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The changes Republicans have made to AHCA over the past several weeks have made the bill considerably more regressive and politically toxic, but have not altered its fundamental nature.
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"She went on, "People who are regressive are politicians who refuse to listen to the people, and that doesn't just have to be Donald Trump or one particular party.
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If our aim is to promote Canadian culture then we need to have inclusive policies that address the digital divide, rather than arbitrary, regressive taxes that keep people offline.
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Research published in 2500 found that, with certain assumptions, the Social Security retirement system as a whole is regressive, or more favorable to the affluent than to the poor.
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So Sanders and Clinton are arguing about soda taxes — Clinton for, as a way to raise money for good stuff while discouraging self-destructive behavior, Sanders against, because regressive.
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Mayor Peduto's commitment to clean energy may abet solar's popularity among the middle class, but as Dr. Reed explained, this can have a regressive impact on low-income communities.
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Even if Hurricane Harvey had never materialized, the broader political and economic climates in the United States would be uniquely ill suited to passing a big regressive tax cut.
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"The coloring thing is not surprising to me at all," Jenefsky said, explaining that coloring is a regressive procedure; it is appealing for adults who yearn to be children.
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Democrats, for understandable reasons, don't want to bail Trump out of his own party's irresponsibility only so the GOP can turn around and enact an enormous regressive tax cut.
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Trump is running on a comically regressive $11 trillion tax cut that will cost more than Hillary Clinton's entire progressive agenda while overwhelmingly benefiting a handful of superrich people.
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She struggled with her own self-perception until she found other people who supported body positivity, rejecting popular and regressive ideas about the way that people's bodies should be.
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In reality, America regularly experiences bouts of regression, but fortunately, it is in those regressive periods that some of our greatest movements and greatest voices had found their footing.
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In one scenario, Amazon could simply drop another prosperity bomb on these two already-prosperous markets, producing a regressive explosion that heightens inequality, spurs gentrification and diminishes social cohesion.
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"Until our progressive leaders end their support for regressive and abusive industries like the dairy industry, protests are going to continue," Direct Action Everywhere spokesperson Cassie King told People.
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According to CTJ's report, two-thirds of the tax cuts in Carson's proposal would go to the top 6900 percent of taxpayers, which 'reflects the plan's extremely regressive features.
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"It is an extraordinarily regressive reform that seriously threatens human rights and processes given as basic, such as presumption of innocence," said independent Senator and rights activist Emilio Alvarez.
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Because the plan does not require a new payroll tax, it would not force low-income families to fund a program that makes regressive transfers to higher-income families.
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In recent weeks the city of Philadelphia attracted media attention by passing a regressive excise tax that will raise the price of almost every product in the beverage aisle.
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"Ministers have said these companies will have to comply with Indian rules, and Indian rules are pretty regressive," said Ms. Choudhary, whose group filed comments opposing the new rules.
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Matheson describes these big-jackpot players as "disproportionately wealthy" compared to the typical purchasers of lottery tickets, making what many describe as a tax on the poor slightly less regressive.
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Markus Lüpertz just about fits the bill for a city clearly more interested in a narrow-minded, regressive perception of art than one that actually speaks to the present moment.
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Though Insecure is loved for its depiction of complex, nuanced black characters, this episode was described by critics as "regressive," with a plot that seemed right out of the '90s.
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Yet over this period, most economies (though not America's) have shifted the composition of labour taxation slightly toward regressive payroll and social-security levies and away from progressive income taxes.
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While it was still criticized by many of Sanders's critics as being "regressive," these criticisms did not touch off the same amount of vitriol among Warren's supporters, at least online.
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It all ties into the biggest problem I had with Blade Runner 2049, a beautiful piece of cyberpunk fiction with disappointingly regressive ideas about sex, race, sexuality, and body type.
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Walmart told the U.S. government privately in January that India's new investment rules for e-commerce were regressive and had the potential to hurt trade ties, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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"This is a regressive tax on essential products that women have had to pay for far too long, and lifting it is a matter of social and economic justice," Gov.
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"It was a show that was simultaneously progressive and regressive, where people of color were either stereotypes or punchlines," Refinery29's Hunter Harris wrote as the show's 20th anniversary approached.
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Against these various parties was counterpoised the more agrarian Democratic Party, which preferred cheap imports and felt that promoting industrialization by taxing the country's rural majority was backward and regressive.
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However, student debt repayment plans of any sort have been shown to be regressive, since most borrowers tend to come from higher-income households, relief benefits those borrowers the most.
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Walmart told the U.S. government privately in January that India's new investment rules for e-commerce were regressive and had the potential to hurt trade ties, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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He's not been particularly courageous in challenging Washington's exceptionally regressive tax structure, and his closeness with Amazon and Boeing put him on the wrong side of an increasingly populist party.
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It plays to the basest and most primal impulses of paranoia, conflict, and violence, and uses them in an effort to create a schism to justify its most regressive attitudes.
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They may even be able to pass a regressive income tax cut on their own, so long as they don't tinker with the tax code too much in other ways.
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The stark contrast between the unforgettable milestones these women helped achieve—advancing humanity literally to the Moon and back—and the regressive attitudes they had to endure can be stunning.
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Let's replace our overly complex, highly regressive system of health care tax subsides, with a simple, refundable tax credit -- generous enough to give every American access to affordable health insurance.
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When such limits prevent municipal governments from raising adequate revenues, they may be forced to resort to regressive and more burdensome revenue collection methods like user fees and sales taxes.
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Instead, we are much more likely to get a deficit-financed, regressive tax cut that will likely expire in 2628 years, much like the 28503–22019 Bush tax cuts did.
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The Trump administration has threatened sexual and reproductive health and rights from the moment the president put pen to paper two years ago, but we can resist his regressive decisions.
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Bina Shah KARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan today, it's a sad reality that regressive societal attitudes toward women label us as commodities, second-class citizens and financial liabilities to our families.
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By enacting comprehensive sealing statutes and rewriting its regressive discovery laws, New York can protect the innocent, as well as provide a second chance for people who have rehabilitated themselves.
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What's worse is that the tax is highly regressive, disproportionately tripping up lower-income Americans since shoes are an everyday good that makes up a larger portion of their budget.
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"People will bash me for saying this because of who I am and coming from a school like Wisconsin, but the system is inherently regressive and structurally racist," he says.
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Carbon Washington, the initiative campaign, maintains that Initiative 732 would be revenue neutral and that, by reducing the state sales tax, the proposal would make taxation in Washington less regressive.
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This means that inadequate enforcement of the tax laws necessarily has a regressive effect, liberating those at the top from scrutiny while the masses continue to be tracked by machines.
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We will get a more regressive tax system along with a weaker I.R.S. as time goes by, leading to lower tax revenues, higher deficits and eventually cuts in social programs.
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Once that was enacted, House Republicans began to queue up a program they called Tax Reform 2.0 that would be an even larger and only modestly less regressive tax cut.
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Brownback's regressive, tax-cut-happy economic agenda left a big hole in the state budget, one that Kansas began to repair last year with a set of limited tax increases.
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After Donald Trump's election, many are feeling hopeless and helpless as they grapple with the reality of having a leader who has consistently championed regressive ideals that threaten social progress.
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On the flipside, the potential for regressive, draconian reform which now rests in Kavanaugh's hands should shock and galvanize every young person who has hitherto taken their rights for granted.
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The challenge for liberals is not primarily winning over voters who find that regressive vision appealing; no modern liberal party can be as authentically bigoted as a far-right one.
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"I was worried that it was a regressive step for women in motorsport and the promotion of that, purely from a segregation perspective," she said in an interview in May.
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"There was no larger consciousness, no solidarity, no political substance, no fungible structure, no true communitarianism to [her] supposed neighborliness, it was all just regressive housewifely bullshit," one neighbor complains.
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Op-Ed Contributor SACRAMENTO — Despite its status as one of the nation's more progressive states, California is speeding backward by promoting what amounts to a highly regressive tax on motorists.
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To counteract the regressive potential of universal policies, progressives like Warren and Sanders argue the tax code should do most of the work to redistribute Americans&apos wealth and income.
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And it is important that Donald Trump's only major legislative victory was a regressive tax-cut straight out of the supply-side playbook, something Appelbaum spends an entire chapter chronicling.
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The cap makes the tax itself regressive: People who earn less pay a greater portion of their overall wages for the tax than those who earn significantly above the cap.
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In this way, what Harris may have seen as a progressive move that acknowledged a sophisticated view of truancy now looks out of touch and even regressive to her critics.
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It's tempting to attribute this mastery to an understanding that floats above the weirdly regressive, anti-modernist, statistics-phobic league he works in, but get the fuck outta here, man.
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"Why I do not believe it is regressive is because it changes people's behavior very quickly," the mayor said in late April when he declared his support for the fee.
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However, the authoritarian pursued a more regressive path after the attempted takeover, clamping down on the media, jailing activists and changing the law to give his office almost unlimited power.
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Whether they're mocking J.D. Vance for his regressive individualism or slamming manufacturers for exploiting the area's regional history to sell pans, the theme is the same: This region isn't less than.
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Satyarthi, whose charity Bachpan Bachao Andolan is credited with rescuing more than 80,000 enslaved children, said the exemptions are "regressive" and wants a total ban on all forms of child labor.
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The case has proven explosive in Pakistan, highlighting the divide between religious conservatives and liberals, with the latter often terrified to speak out against the regressive laws for fear of reprisals.
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Babli's regressive ideas about relationship and marriage and Abhay's complete disregard for consent make for a messy tale that sees people being forced into marriage in the guise of social service.
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The IMF representative to Ukraine, Goesta Ljungman, said in emailed comments to Reuters that low prices for households amounted to subsidies that were regressive and helped the largest users the most.
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But the actual execution is dull — or mildly offensive, given that Disney's first "official" gay character (ignoring its coded ones and fan-canon ones) is a catty, clingy, regressive, "confused" stereotype.
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Regressive tax policies, deregulation and diminished social services, all of which the GOP has gradually embraced, have left many Americans more vulnerable than ever before to the vagaries of the economy.
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French officials were championing the law as a protection of France's secularity, a core tenet of the country's constitution, as well as a defense against the "regressive" nature of the burka.
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While having a slideshow of plus-sized celebrities with the best style is a step forward, showing that they're only stylish when they're red-carpet ready is regressive and grossly inaccurate.
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The idea that people should pay high fees to migrate is highly regressive and would not only discriminate against poor people but also undermine growth and productivity in the receiving country.
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" After all, Donald Trump's regressive and dismissive campaign slogan feels uncomfortably close to the Twitter sentiment the Roseanne social media team paired with the trailer: "Some things aren't meant to change.
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And with increasing fear of a recession thanks to falling oil prices, the economic argument for increased female emancipation may cause this regressive ban to be overturned—but not just yet.
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Critics argue it would likely end up more regressive than the current system, however, since poorer Americans spend a much greater share of their income and save less than the rich.
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His upcoming push for a steep, regressive corporate tax cut and his instructions to have federal agencies not enforce the Affordable Care Act will trigger immense controversy and fuel partisan divisions.
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They are instead part of an effort to obscure the singular economic importance of regressive, pro-wealthy policies in the rise in income and wealth inequality over the past three decades.
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It leaves many people across our globe, who might desire to free themselves of the yoke of oppressive rule or regressive socialist systems, without a good example of a better option.
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This empathy has to be thematic and not programmatic identification: we plainly cannot agree with regressive changes in the tax code, or canceling the Paris agreement, or deporting 11 million people.
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Regardless of the meaning behind this quote, it's deeply regressive for anyone — man, woman, or gender non-conforming — to suggest there's a tidy list of what feminists can and cannot wear.
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Though my parents have met Fadi, they don't know about the nature of our friendship, as my dad is a regressive conservative and avid supporter of the Alternative for Germany party.
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As a Company committed to diversity, inclusiveness and tolerance, we urge the Governor of Georgia to veto the deplorable and regressive legislation (House Bill 757) that has been sent to him.
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Carbon taxes can be constructed in a way that substantially speeds greenhouse gas cuts without hamstringing the economy or regressive financial effects, according to joint research in four papers published Tuesday.
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What's not hypothetical: At some point Democrats will be in a position to govern again, and will likely want to roll back significant elements of this unpopular and regressive tax plan.
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We wanted masculine-presenting women, androgynous women, gay women who consider themselves female, nonbinary women, because we wanted to demonstrate how that space is opening up at a culturally regressive time.
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Why have we been treated to so many lectures about the "populist appeal" of a man running on regressive tax cuts and financial deregulation and the "economic anxiety" of his fans?
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Even a tax hike that would be regressive on its own, like a sales tax bump, would be progressive if used to pay for a benefit aimed directly at the poor.
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Right now, crust- and post-metal-informed black metal/hardcore seems to be having a moment, alongside thoughtful, dynamic doom and progressively regressive death metal (all of which please me greatly).
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That environmental success story should be encouraged, not punished by taxation — a regressive move that burdens hard-working citizens, increases the cost of basic necessities and disproportionately affects low-income citizens.
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Does Plastic Jesus have weird and regressive ideas about pop culture's relationship to ignorance, some sort of adolescent ideology that might make him think that everyone's a fucking idiot except him?
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The good news is that despite regressive efforts by industry hard-liners, a growing number of businesses, including some with long traditions in animal agriculture, are investing in plant-based foods.
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The Republican proposal would have the tax credits be a function of age, a regressive approach that would leave many poorer Americans less well off and result in millions losing insurance.
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Theirs was an authoritarian, regressive form of the faith—a vision of a civic order rooted in hierarchy and deriving its legitimacy from its claim to represent an authentically Christian nation.
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In looking through this lens, I have seen firsthand how low wages and, at times, regressive public policy can adversely impact the financially fragile, and how I can make a difference.
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The beverage industry has been fighting back, spending millions on ad campaigns against the proposed taxes in California and Colorado, which it calls a regressive "grocery tax" that hurts the poor.
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Trump's regressive social stances and hyper-partisanship are what make him popular in the GOP: If you are to opposed to Trump, then you need to challenge him on that terrain.
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Opening up new housing construction, ending regressive tax subsidies for the rich and investing in better teachers for the poor would improve both the size and distribution of economic gains in society.
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Critics of the ban, including members of the State Assembly, have voiced concern that a 5-cent fee will "act as a regressive tax on poor consumers," as the Times puts it.
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But who knows—if it comes to a point where America is a regressive country or supports oppression, then you can't really stand by that and say you're happy to stay here.
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Liberals would be mad about an additional regressive tax cut, but liberals are already committed to rolling back the Trump tax cuts with a reconciliation bill if they ever get the chance.
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Junius Griffin, a National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) representative, coined the term from the words "Black" and "exploitation" and, along with many others, denounced the genre's regressive side.
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That's especially true when you consider that SALT is also partly paying for lower corporate and estate tax rates, cuts which are even more regressive than cutting the top rate for individuals.
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My overexuberance in support of a player has been misinterpreted as a demonstration of a regressive attitude about an important social issue … I am sorry if anyone was offended by my actions.
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A remnant of the regressive ideas that permeate the early God of War games―ideas that this offering claims to grow out of, it's a duality of motherhood through a misogynistic lens.
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Read These Stories Next: The Case For Kendall Long To Be The Next Bachelorette Exactly What Women Spend To Compete On The Bachelor Why Is The Bachelor Still Having This Regressive Conversation?
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Opponents of the state and local tax deduction, which the bill would largely eliminate, argue it's regressive and concentrates benefits on rich states rather than poor ones that actually need the money.
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Mr Berrios boasted about the new state-of the-art system in a press release in July 2015 saying that it would improve accuracy by 50% and make the tax less regressive.
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Walmart told the U.S.government privately in January that India's new investment rules for e-commerce were regressive and had the potential to hurt trade ties, a company document seen by Reuters showed.
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Consequently, the end result of basic income could be theoretically regressive in nature by reducing the benefits of the poor and transferring that revenue instead to the middle classes and the rich.
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A wider reform of the EU copyright framework, remains in train — though a draft proposal published last September was criticized as regressive and a missed opportunity for proper modernization of the rules.
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Its tax shifts (a cut in the state sales tax and full funding of the state's working families tax rebate) were specifically designed to offset the regressive nature of the carbon tax.
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Cons: Many Democrats assume VATs are regressive and many Republicans fear they will be used to boost government revenue; and it preserves the income-shifting opportunities that our source-based system affords.
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The combination of the two would amount to a revenue-neutral tax bill, plus a massive, regressive tax cut financed by eliminating insurance subsidies for millions of poor and working class people.
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Although the President made many grandiose campaign promises about helping Americans who need treatment and care for their health issue, every action taken by his Cabinet has been harsh, regressive, and harmful.
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The Vermont senator called it a "regressive tax" and said he doesn't think someone who is making $20,000 a year should have to pay 30 cents more for a bottle of soda.
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Accounting for the transfer payments that are indexed to the price of these consumption goods shows that carbon taxes aren't regressive–meaning that poor households are not disproportionately burdened by the tax.
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The first deals with the definition of BAH and its categorization as a principle component of Regular Military Compensation (RMC) and the second is the regressive and discriminatory nature of the cut.
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The tax bill is not only sweepingly regressive, all but guaranteeing that cuts to the social safety net will follow, but will also wreak havoc in insurance markets, causing premiums to rise.
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There also is growing appreciation for the malignant effects that entrenched interests and regressive policy can have on broad-based economic growth, making it harder to deal with these underlying economic changes.
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House Republicans have some big policy ideas — primarily a large regressive tax cut paid for by cuts to Medicaid — that they have been unable to get the Senate to go along with.
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Smokey and the Bandit's languorous but snarky down-home rebel "Bandit" Darville epitomized the kind of cheekily regressive sub-strain of '70s machismo that Reynolds would embody for most of his life.
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Mr. Trump's announcement last summer was an attempt to reverse that Obama-era policy — and a clear effort to pander to Vice President Mike Pence, other right-wing zealots and regressive generals.
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John Lewis, who spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King Jr. He tweeted an attack on award-winning actor Meryl Streep for speaking out against his regressive social policies.
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"I made it clear that I opposed the gas tax on the grounds that it's too regressive," said Katie Porter, a Democrat from Irvine in a very tight race against Ms. Walters.
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But because heat and electricity represent a basic good, it is not appropriate to address them with pricing mechanisms like taxes, which tend to be regressive and hit the poor the hardest.
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"Because the Freedom Dividend is funded through a regressive Value Added Tax, costs will rise for low-income Americans, leaving some of the most vulnerable Americans worse off than before," Pugh said.
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The book demonstrates how regressive some societies are when it comes to providing safe, sanitary conditions for menstruation, though it also takes note of innovative ways to diagnose people through blood tests.
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Liberals feared that Roosevelt's plan would ultimately weaken the court as a guardian of civil rights by allowing future presidents with more regressive views to easily install justices hostile to minority rights.
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"I now call on the rest of the auto industry to join us, and for the Trump administration to adopt this pragmatic compromise instead of pursuing its regressive rule change," California Gov.
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"It is a regressive, discriminatory tax and will hurt the incomes of working people and harm local businesses," said a spokeswoman from the American Beverage Association, whose members include Coke and Pepsi.
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And homophobic or otherwise regressive plot points can become side effects of that reactionary feeling because the creators privilege their desire to shape or control the narrative over all these other factors.
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Like the original internet itself, the blockchain is an idea with radical — almost communitarian — possibilities that at the same time has attracted some of the most frivolous and regressive appetites of capitalism.
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Opponents of the state and local tax deduction, which the bill would sharply limit, argue it's regressive and concentrates benefits on rich states rather than poor ones that actually need the money.
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As conditions become more and more unstable, you're going to see all of these regressive tendencies in our politics bubble up to the surface, and that's likely to lead to more violence.
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And that's before taking into account how any of this is paid for — if it's paid for through the domestic spending cuts Republicans want, it will be yet more regressive in its effects.
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Both analyses arrive at the same conclusion: The tax bill's combination of tax cuts for corporations and high-income individuals and targeted increases for other individuals lead to a bill that's regressive overall.
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As a stand in for the White House's regressive policies around policing, Manigault-Newman was called to task for her role as director of communications for the White House's Office of Public Liaison.
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Critics on Twitter and elsewhere (including at Vox) have called the premise of the show fatphobic, triggering to people with eating disorders, and a regressive lens through which to view fat people's stories.
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Considering that he was consciously overlooked back when Sven-Göran Eriksson left the post – apparently on account of his rudimentary tactics – those who see him as a regressive appointment are almost certainly right.
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In a vacuum, reading about how to conduct romantic and sexual pursuits without iMessage might be refreshing; instead, Strauss spoils this almost-analog throwback with the worst #tbt of all: regressive gender politics!
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In other words, a Trump tariff against all countries (or even one against only China, Mexico and Japan) would be a regressive tax that burdens lower income households more than higher income households.
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Downey's pre-internet paintings succeed not by being regressive reactionary works but rather by showing us a refreshing alternative that emerges at the same time that we are reevaluating our "swipe left" culture.
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Beyond improving the current system, new progressive taxes that predominantly burden high earners would allow the U.S. to rely less on regressive policies like payroll taxes that place more burden on low earners.
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While the episode certainly didn't feel creepy — again, Arie is such a square he literally laughs out loud over those playboy allegations — it did feel more regressive than any other installment this season.
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STEPHEN MILLERSan Francisco Unfortunately, a tax on carbon is regressive given that poorer families pay a higher proportion of their income on energy, especially those in rural areas who must drive long distances.
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Democrats have gone to great lengths to argue that Republican economic policies are highly regressive and tend to support the kinds of economic forces that have undercut the security of the middle class.
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Walmart told the U.S. government privately in January that India's new investment rules for e-commerce were regressive and had the potential to hurt trade ties, a company document seen by Reuters showed.
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But it's also regressive: patrons who currently give artists $1 or $2 a month, especially if they're pledging to multiple campaigns, will see higher proportional fees than those making one large monthly donation.
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Another common case against higher prices on alcohol is that these policies are regressive and affect the poor more, because low-income people are less likely to be able to afford cheaper alcohol.
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And so Cruz and Trump's tax and spending cuts would end up a regressive redistribution of money and services, while Sanders's tax and spending increases would be a sharply progressive redistribution of money.
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Trump's election threw wide the Overton window; political rhetoric and behavior that was previously unthinkable is now electorally viable, as we see with the ascendance of regressive, fame-seeking dilettantes like Clay Higgins.
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For $5, you'll get 50 of General Jeff's "Old Rebel" Session Papers—perfect for any time you're all worked up about the Trump administration's regressive drug policies and just want to roll up.
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Democrats and liberals were unhappy about raising the regressive sales tax, which disproportionately affects the poor, and they resented a stealth move by the business lobby to jack up sales taxes still more.
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Whenever regressive social policies are introduced, it's the poorest and most disenfranchised who suffer the most: whether it's increasing student tuition costs or archaic abortion policies rooted in polemic masquerading as medical fact.
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Greece's foreign ministry, meanwhile, had some harsh words of rebuke: We condemn as regressive the Turkish authorities' announcement of the scheduling of a Koran reading in Hagia Sophia on the occasion of Ramadan.
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The plan's regressive skew — including cuts in tax rates for corporations and the wealthiest individuals — only bolsters the impression that self-interest is driving the process more than considerations of the general good.
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"This is a major change and a regressive policy shift," a senior director in government affairs at Walmart told the Office of the United States Trade Representative in an e-mail on Jan.
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Their affinities find expression in their notion of a "Europe of fatherlands," or Europe of nations, which is a frightening, regressive vision for the future of the EU and Europe as a whole.
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The statement can't be written off as the regressive stance of a fringe group: More than 150 influential conservative evangelical leaders, half of whom belong to the Southern Baptist Convention, signed the statement.
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While regressive legislation about restroom use and an attempted ban of transgender military recruits suggest the fear and suspicion that transgender and gender-fluid people experience, the Rattlestick audience was primed for engagement.
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But the president should also be aware that foolish moves by his administration could empower the most regressive forces and set back reforms that could bring Iran fully into the community of nations.
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Tariffs on Chinese goods will in fact raise some tax revenue, though this is a highly regressive form of tax increase, and there's obviously something bizarre about a Republican bragging about raising taxes.
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Never mind the jobs or economic growth, what "Make America Great Again" looks like in practice is the imposition of social control on groups that threaten a regressive, hierarchical vision of the country.
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"As if it wasn't enough that we are taxed to death in every facet of our lives, the New York City Council has just passed another regressive tax," he said in a statement.
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I really don't want to invoke regressive gendered language that associates maleness with stereotypical traits like masculinity, strength, force, and courage, but in this case I must be clear: Man the fuck up!
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"Even when taking the tax cuts and all possible revenue raisers together, the administration's proposed tax changes would be highly regressive, with most benefits accruing to the highest-income households," the TPC says.
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Over the course of Thursday's debate, several members described the tax as "regressive," unfairly affecting the poor, elderly, and those on public assistance who can't afford even a small uptick in living expenses.
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The company is also urging fans to "speak out" against the Trump administration's socially regressive policies, and presents the option to "take action now" by signing up for emails from the partner organizations.
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The two main options are either to use the revenue to finance a sales tax cut (sales taxes are extremely regressive) or to pay out a "congestion dividend" to all the city's residents.
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After that, Wonder Woman would take a number of regressive turns that her free-thinking creator would've loathed: She doted on Steve Trevor more, relinquished her powers, and at one point, opened a boutique.
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To this end, he has retained other parts of Mr Osborne's legacy, including a cut of about £10bn from the working-age welfare bill by 2020, a move most analysts see as highly regressive.
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"This is the most risky, reckless and regressive tax proposal ever put forward by any major presidential candidate," Gene Sperling, the former director of the National Economic Council, told reporters on a conference call.
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Schoettes is one of six people who quit the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in June, furious at what they said were regressive health policies and a lack of care shown by Trump.
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At the same time, the narrative clung to regressive views of gender, race, and sexuality that left it little room to evolve in the directions that many of its fans desperately wanted it to.
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This summer, the obstacles you encounter and the problems you solve will seem regressive—you thought that you'd already addressed them, but tightening loose screws will only make you stronger in the long run.
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Trump's regressive climate policies fly in the face of the consensus of scientists and economists, who say natural gas and renewables like solar and wind power are eclipsing coal as cheaper, cleaner energy sources.
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Figuring a trillion-or-so dollars of upward redistribution was better than none, Republicans picked option two, and 10 years later, President Barack Obama allowed the most regressive of those tax cuts to expire.
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Failing to repeal Obamacare means Republicans have to get behind a massive, standalone, regressive tax cut, which would either fail to pass or—thanks to obscure budget rules—have to expire after several years.
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If such a regressive tax doesn't actually reduce consumption, it will just make it harder for those people to make ends meet, much the way some economists argue that increasingly high cigarette taxes have.
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Emilia Clarke has words for anyone under the regressive illusion that being a feminist and being a sex symbol are mutually exclusive — or that beauty and intelligence are an unlikely combination in a woman.
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"Great Grand Masti" could have turned the tables on the sex comedy genre, but thanks to some watered-down humour and regressive script, this is just another mediocre film that will sink into oblivion.
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But unless the regressive mind-set of those men undergoes a revolutionary transformation as well, the new laws will be ineffectual eyewash in the face of the misogyny that Pakistani women encounter every day.
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Second, the voters are issuing a harsh rebuke of the regressive politics of the Trump presidency — remember, this is a video where images of the KKK, gun fire, and police brutality play major roles.
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But let's begin with the latest regressive news from the United States press freedom front, which came by way of The Associated Press just two days before Air Force One took off for Havana.
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Back in 2007, Mr. Rubio countered that his property tax plan would make it easier for renters to become buyers by eliminating a major cost of homeownership, and that property taxes themselves were regressive.
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This election was not just about regressive policy choices, but also about traditional values (defined primarily by the Christian right), about nostalgia for American greatness and security, about nostalgia for a pre-globalized world.
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It's not exactly news that names such as the "Redskins" and the "Stanford Indian" rely on regressive tropes lifted straight from a Colonial-era playbook, using language that downplays the plights of Native Americans.
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But others believe its point of view is regressive and backward, playing off stereotypes and tropes that can be actively harmful if they aren't handled with care — and which the show has often mishandled.
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Dr. Janov maintained that the way to relieve primal pain — and cure its associated ills — was to relive it via primal therapy, which entailed a regressive return to those distressing, now-accessible early memories.
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Lila might be the smarter of the two — though Elena's intelligence isn't to be diminished (especially when it comes to writing) — but she's also the one growing up in the more conservative, regressive family.
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But unlike reactionary movements like "trad wives" — essentially right-wing mommy bloggers who advocate a return to regressive gender roles — cottagecore offers a vision of domestic bliss without servitude in the traditional binary framework.
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They have benefitted from and abetted the extreme wealth gap; they have traditionally supported regressive Republican policies (and, more recently, backed Trump); and they live lives of opulence that contribute disproportionately to climate change.
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Opponents in the Legislature maintained that the city law, which would have imposed a five-cent fee on disposable plastic bags, amounted to a regressive tax and would have hit poor shoppers the hardest.
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"Basically, this is a regressive tax on main street retirement savings, drive up costs of home mortgages and make financial markets more inefficient," Tom Quaadman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote to CNBC.
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Racial exclusion was Roosevelt's first concession to pass the New Deal; his second, to avoid a tax revolt, was to rely on regressive and largely hidden payroll taxes to fund generous social-welfare programs.
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Critics of free public college, including Mr. Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar, argue that it's a wasteful, even regressive, idea, since students from families wealthy enough to afford tuition would disproportionately reap the benefits.
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And while it's rare to mention Border Patrol in 2019 without also referencing Donald Trump's regressive immigration policies, this show covers a stretch of time that actually predates the current president's time in office.
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" The problem, according to Daron Acemoglu, a prominent macroeconomist, is that while "simplification of the tax code could be beneficial," that effect would most likely be "more than offset by its highly regressive nature.
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Essentially every tax cut featured in the bill is regressive in its impact, with much of the tax cutting dedicating to expanding HSA and FSA tax shelters that are primarily valuable to affluent families.
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A small business elite has supported fragile governments in exchange for low taxes and oligopolistic control of key industries, keeping the economy uncompetitive and obliging the government to finance itself through regressive taxes on imports.
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Get Out, from comedian Jordan Peele, puts black male protagonist Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) in his girlfriend's (Allison WIlliams) parents' regressive Southern town, where unsettling servants and multitudes of microaggression lead to true violence and horror.
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But one of the oddities of Trump's thinking on this is he doesn't seem to acknowledge that a large tax increase on Chinese-made goods is also just a big regressive tax hike on Americans.
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"Increasing the debt now for economically dubious — and undoubtedly regressive — gains could threaten Social Security and Medicare in the not-so-distant future," Melissa Favreault, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, wrote last week.
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That is more progressive as a whole than it is regressive, and inequality is reduced overall, not increased, because the total at the bottom went from $220,263 across four people to $211,11 across four people.
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This isn't a new phenomenon, but it's an important one in an pop culture environment increasingly driven by nostalgic, regressive, "Why can't culture just stop at the point where I personally liked it most?" whining.
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Ollivier demonstrates strength and resilience, though ultimately, her character is more of a prop to create tension for others in some extraordinarily tired and regressive ways, rather than someone with her own agency and destiny.
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Maybe all the rest of this extraordinary film—a summer spent in Italy, a knight asleep in your own bed, freedom achieved from regressive social mores—can be chalked up to the stuff of fantasy.
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In response, the state's overwhelmingly Republican legislature reconvened on Wednesday and hammered out HB2, which is widely regarded as one of the most regressive bills on LGBT rights to be made law in recent years.
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A carbon tax, all things being equal, is regressive: It raises the cost of energy, and lower income households spend a higher percentage of their budget on energy, so it hits low-income households harder.
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"This is a regressive tax on essential products that women have had to pay for far too long and lifting it is a matter of social and economic justice," Cuomo said in a news release.
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Pros: It would likely withstand challenge by the WTO; and the Graetz plan has been well vetted and refined over the years to ensure that it is both revenue-neutral and will not be regressive.
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But an absolutely critical one we shouldn't downplay is the anxiety felt by many white Americans about the country's growing diversity, which led them to be attracted to the most racially regressive candidate in decades.
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I was hugely dubious about any effort to put Doctor Strange on-screen, given the basic story's regressive stereotypes, druggy cosmic nonsense, and distance from the rest of the world the MCU has been building.
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Félix M. Román Carrasquillo, a lawyer for those in the cockfighting industry, said the ban suggested that members of the federal government viewed Puerto Rico as an inferior, regressive colony unable to fend for itself.
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The political center is shrinking, as many on the left move from liberalism toward misnamed "progressivism" that often espouses many regressive and intolerant elements, and as the right moves toward populism and outright white supremacy.
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Supporters of the Seattle proposal, including Mayor Ed Murray, say the current tax code unfairly burdens poor and middle class residents because it relies on "regressive" taxes, such as taxes on property and sales transactions.
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The Open Rights Group accused the EC of ignoring EU citizens responses to an earlier consultation on the reform, and trying to bring in regressive rules that will force private companies to police the Internet.
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For one thing, as the Tax Policy Center's Elaine Maag explains, the plan to make child care deductible is regressive: It only benefits the middle- and upper-income Americans with a positive income tax liability.
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The New York City fee had also been opposed by some in the State Assembly, which has been dominated by Democrats, who worried that the fee would act as a regressive tax on poor consumers.
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"They are at 55,000 because of their regressive policies — arresting and detaining people with no criminal convictions and not releasing asylum-seekers even after they have been determined to have a credible claim," he said.
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The main reason that the deficits keep growing under the GOP has to do with an insatiable appetite for regressive tax cuts, which have been at the heart of the conservative revolution since the 1970s.
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Having lost the so-called culture war on women's and L.G.B.T. rights among the general public, Christian nationalists understand that the only way for their regressive views to dominate is if they control the courts.
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South Carolina has some of the most regressive sexual education policies in the US, a key indicator of the likeliness of sexual assault, making the state a unique stakeholder in the fight against sexual violence.
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While increasing the standard deduction could provide a larger tax break to middle income families, it would also make the MID even more regressive, benefiting only the very highest-income households with the largest mortgages.
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He joined the nationalists in 1987, a time when Margaret Thatcher, then the Conservative prime minister, left her mark on Scotland with regressive taxes and anti-union policies, even though few Scots voted for her.
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In this tragically regressive framing, literally everyone wins: the desperate harpies of D.C., AND the company that laid waste to dating scenes in other regions of America by attracting men like rats to dry land.
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"I do think there's a type of regressive — that old wife — sitcom humor that persists somehow," she said, adding that they have a shorthand in the cartoon department when they see a joke like that.
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But a look back at the many books Trump has written over the years reveals a lot about how Trump thinks about women, and about the often-regressive attitudes that may well inform his behavior.
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