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China’s highly regressive fiscal system (the poor are taxed more than the wealthy) entails excessive revenues for the central government and relatively little expenditure on social services.
The problem with inequality is not only that it obstructs the pursuit of collective goals and the common good; it also erects structural barriers to development, for example, through meager or regressive taxation and underinvestment in education, health, or infrastructure.
This constitutes the illusionary and historically regressive element of current Russian policy.
This regressive design is not exclusive to India; it is typical of the Third World.
Investing in road infrastructure tends to be regressive in societies where only a minority own automobiles.
BERKELEY – A universal basic income (UBI) would be both regressive and prohibitively expensive.
That is not because the US has the least progressive tax system; indeed, its tax system is considerably more progressive than those of most European countries, Canada, and Australia, all of which rely on regressive value-added taxes as an important source of revenue.
The US spends a much smaller share of GDP on family-assistance programs – including cash transfers, tax breaks, and direct government services – than its developed-country counterparts, where reliance on regressive consumption taxes to fund progressive transfer programs has kept income inequality significantly lower.
And there is bipartisan opposition to a value-added tax, with Democrats fearing its regressive consequences and Republicans dreading its revenue-generating effectiveness.
Leftists once understood that the good society is to be won by entering the prevailing institutions in order to overcome their regressive function.
On the other hand, social security taxes – the biggest tax for more than two-thirds of families – are mildly regressive.
The total tax burden on families also includes sales taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive.
It started on tax reform: a 'flat' income tax, a single regressive social tax, a ban on the turnover tax, etc.
It was a regressive answer to a genuine international problem: how to hold together multi-ethnic/religious states in a reasonably civilized way.
Democrats, too, have historically opposed a VAT, because it is a highly regressive form of taxation.
And while it could be made less regressive by excluding or discounting food and other basic goods, that would only make it less appealing to Republicans.
Countless international, national, and state comparisons have demonstrated overwhelmingly that trickle-down economics is a regressive fantasy.
Given Turkey’s considerable experience in writing constitutions, most legal experts deem the amendments, which voters endorsed by a razor-thin margin, regressive at best.
On the tax side, examples include expanding the base of the personal income tax, ensuring that the rate structure is progressive, removing excessive and regressive exemptions, and improving property taxation.
Now they understand that Macron’s policies will worsen the deflationary, regressive cycle that is Le Pen’s greatest ally.
President Bush recognized that a fiscal stimulus was needed when he arrived in office, but rather than pushing for genuine stimulus, it pushed for regressive tax changes under the name of a fiscal stimulus.
A decade ago, business leaders would have largely welcomed such regressive environmental policies, which can lower costs and expand opportunities, by reducing constraints on their companies’ behavior.
And state income taxes are the best way to introduce a modicum of progressivity at the subnational level: states without an income tax typically rely on regressive sales taxes, which impose a heavy burden on the poor and working people.
America’s regressive tax system – which fuels inequality by helping the rich (but no one else) get richer – must also be reformed.
The result, he suggested, would be a president who placates his supporters with tweets to distract from his administration’s regressive economic policies and reported ties to Russia.
But, rather than allowing ourselves to be swept up in the regressive tide of nostalgia, we need to engage one another in a constructive conversation about the challenges that we actually face and propose new ideas for addressing them.
Of total social expenditures of 24% of GDP in 1994, nearly 5% went to housing subsidies, which are regressive.
Other budget expenditures in Russia are even more regressive.
This approach also addresses concerns about the regressive effects of a cut in the corporate rate.
Similarly, a modest carbon tax or value-added tax, with credits or subsidies to offset the regressive effects on low-income households, could generate enough revenue both to pay for a significant reduction in the corporate tax rate and to make a meaningful contribution to deficit reduction.
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