Sentences with phrase «regressive sales»

«Regressive sales tax» is, of course, redundant, but you knew that.

The carrots in the measure were a 1 percent cut in the state's regressive sales tax, near elimination of business taxes for manufacturing to protect jobs, and tax rebates of up to $ 1,500 for hundreds of thousands of low - income households.

And so Carbon WA, as the advocates of I - 732 called themselves, fashioned its ballot initiative around cuts to the state's regressive sales tax.

I would prefer a simple, progressive income tax to regressive sales taxes but you lie constantly and complain about any form of taxation.

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With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

He voted, for instance, against allowing the extension of temporary increases to some local sales tax rates, calling the sales tax regressive.

More than two - thirds of the revenue from a $ 25 / ton carbon tax would be used to reduce the sales tax, which is a regressive tax.

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.

To avoid burdening low and moderate - income households, carbon tax proceeds should be returned to Americans through periodic pro rata «dividends» or dedicated to reducing the tax burden of regressive taxes such as the federal payroll tax or state sales taxes (depending upon whether the tax is imposed at the federal or state level).