regressive

You're right about inferior goods making a T&D program somewhat regressive (the canonical example is probably carbon).

The government should have a regressive tax;bathe current tax system actually penalizes success and rewards failure.

It does not follow, however, that simplifying the tax code would require a regressive flat tax.

If you allow the first $50K tax-free, it's not really regressive, is it?

It would just be another tax, although somewhat regressive, since the poor tend to have more of their net-worth in cash than the rich.

They're just steaming right on ahead with draconian and regressive policies.

It doesn't have a lot to do with regressive tax policies, which are based either on income or wealth, you can't apply that to tobacco products.

Fundamentally the intellectual framework is driven by patronage of the highest caste which cannot help but maintain elitist, regressive, Darwnian, Malthusian worldviews to rationalize the inequality.

Governments dramatically impact the price of the housing market already via any manner of policies such as zoning, regressive tax subsidies on mortgages and even school funding.

Likewise, since wealthy individuals tend to pay more taxes on an absolute basis (despite an increasingly regressive system) their interests within the constituency of taxpayers are also lifted.

The more we stamp out controversial and distasteful communities, the more at risk we become of supporting and perpetuating regressive ideas without even realizing it.

Ironically, I think that VDUs (that's what they were called at the time!) have come so far that the contemporary manifestation of novel is technologically* regressive.

Guido's post calling it "Tail-Recursion Elimination" was particularly regressive -- the transformation doesn't make your code any less recursive!

Are you talking about the wealthy having greater ability to find tax loopholes or do define "regressive" as everyone paying the same proportion of their income?

Define "regressive" because when I google it I get "(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes".

It's quite regressive to bake an outdated conception of the color theory of race into a standard that aims to "educate and engage academic and scientific communities, and the general public" (the stated mission of the Unicode Consortium).