Sentences with phrase «with regressive»

But it's easer than leading with a regressive tax.

Coupled with a regressive push by parts of the government like the Ministry of Economy which is fighting tooth and nail to make sure that the limitations don't apply to the funds they control, there is indeed cause for concern.

For one reason and one reason only: their relationship with the regressive Minnesota - based Animal Humane Society which does not want a bill regulating shelters to pass in their state.

Suskind's son, Owen, had been diagnosed with regressive autism as a child and had been declared uneducable.

It surely doesn't mean that union power which hobbles a school's ability to educate children — with regressive tenure and seniority rules, for example — doesn't need to be checked.

Among documentaries, the big winner of the festival was Life, Animated, the story of Owen Suskind, who was diagnosed with regressive autism at age 3 and vanished into himself completely until his parents discovered that his obsessive love of Disney cartoons offered a pathway for him to begin communicating again.

After all, they are the ones losing out the most with regressive budgets, tabloid witch - hunts and their restoration as the undeserving poor.

«If she knew the anxiety that New York City families living below the poverty line experienced every day, she wouldn't be trying to make a trip to the grocery store more costly with this regressive tax,» he said.

To deal with the faux financial crisis, one needs to deal with the regressive state income tax.

But Felder and others claim this really has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with a regressive tax that disproportionately punishes lower income New Yorkers.

Be patient with regressive behavior, especially on the part of younger kids, who may have trouble making sense of emotions.

Not exact matches

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Latvia has been burdened with the world's most regressive tax system, while Iceland and Ireland have become record setters in tapping taxpayers to bail out financial...

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

The SALT deduction is regressive for several reasons: it is only available for the one - third of taxpayers who itemize deductions, it is more beneficial for those who are paying higher state and local taxes, and perhaps most significantly, its benefit goes up with one's tax rate.

Cutting consumption taxes is regressive, many warned, because it rewards the rich with proportionately greater discounts (two per cent off the price of a BMW, they reasoned, is worth a lot more than two per cent off a Chevy Cavalier).

Basically, in line with lotteries in other countries, in Britain the poorest social groups spend much higher relative amounts, making it highly regressive, which is significant when we come to look at the services that the lottery is starting to pay for.

This Pope seems like a pretty good guy, too bad he's saddled with a terrible regressive organization to lead.

Language as metaphor, consciousness as resting on the unconscious, reality as Heraclitean fire: Can these three concepts provide an antidote to the regressive tendencies with which Brown's and Altizer's intentions have been drugged?

Yet from antiquity to modern existentialism we find warnings that such a «gnostic» move away from our historicity is regressive, that it is a backward retreat which conflicts with authentic human existence.

In a more recent note he said: «The heart of our concern towards Foster's lies with what we see as the apparent regressive culture in the organisation.

The football world is regressive and scared to move forward... Spoken from deep experience with arsenal football club... Can't make this guy up if you tried

But even after Brendan Rodgers achieved a second place finish with Liverpool, the club failed to secure its primary target — Alexis Sanchez — and instead defaulted onto a regressive transfer policy, as players, like Balotelli, were brought in, despite not being one of the manager's main targets.

If your child's baby talk is combined with other regressive behaviors, such as bedwetting, seek professional help.

Don't confuse this type of regressive behavior with other types of moment - to - moment inappropriate behavior.

The obvious pitfall for this scheme is that it is regressive by design: a cash incentive to encourage people with wealth to spend it (although perhaps a mere # 2,000 would not be much of an incentive to sell - up for the genuinely rich).

A regressive tax is one that disproportionately taxes people's income at a higher rate for people with lower income than people with higher incomes.

According to Dr. Ledwidge, the concept of «race neutrality» or «colour blindness» is «off the mark — what appears to be neutral is [actually] regressive and harmful because historical injustices have created such an unequal environment that initial material deficits [along racial lines] must be recognized before they are able to be dealt with.»

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

The Obasanjo - led 4th Republic (from 1999) has followed the same regressive pattern — with Obasanjo's successors sinking steadily in the mire, until the threatened collapse (not only of Obasanjo's house of straw, but of the whole ruling class) of 2015, which rallied that class to rally around a clean name, to save them all.

But lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly are concerned with the impact of the fee as a regressive tax.

This IFS research puts the Budget's regressive impact beyond doubt: the poorest will be hit more than many of the richest in cash terms let alone as a percentage; poor and middle income families with children lose out more than any other household types and the very poorest families with children lose more than any other groups — with 5 per cent of their total income being cut.

Today we once again join with Governor Cuomo to oppose these new dangerous and regressive actions, and I call on Congress to do everything they can to protect our ability to deliver quality health care.»

Hawkins will speak on the need for the state to better share revenues with local government, enabling them to better meet local needs while reducing regressive local property taxes.

With no democratic mandate, the coalition has just produced possibly the most regressive budget in living memory, where it intends to make low paid and vulnerable people pay for the economic crisis.

In his local stops, Hawkins emphasized the need for the state to better share revenues with local government, enabling them to better meet local needs while reducing regressive local property taxes.

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.

There might well be further over-riding factors in Lib / Lab margainals - such as where Liberals are pushing through regressive measures in coalition with the Tories at local authority level.

«It is an appalling, regressive, and hugely troubling development which will leave many people in Scotland — and across the rest of the UK and beyond — wondering, with real concern, what kind of country the Tories want us to be.

NY magazine's Chris Smith, who's getting a lot of attention for his well - timed cover story of Gov. Andrew «The Gamer» Cuomo, was on «Morning Joe» today and said the budget Cuomo negotiated with the legislative leaders is «regressive in a lot of senses» and could come back to haunt him if he runs for president.

«Our analysis continues to show that, with the notable exception of the richest 2 %, the tax and benefit components of the fiscal consolidation are, overall, being implemented in a regressive way.»

«Fair taxes» are not what we've got so far from this coalition government, with its «regressive» (© Institute for Fiscal Studies) emergency Budget in June.

However, he added that the move would be «only the beginning of a major fight with the Tories over the measures, adding: «I am determined that we will fight this regressive Bill line by line, word by word in committee.

In an interview with the Daily Politics, the left - leaning MP signalled his unambiguous opposition to any rise in VAT, which he accurately described as «the most regressive tax».

VAT has the virtue of being simple to collect and with very low levels of evasion, but it's the wrong call as it's deeply regressive and hits the poorest hardest.»

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

Hawkins called for progressive tax reforms and increased state revenue sharing with local governments to pay for the Green New Deal as well as fully fund state and local public services and enable local governments to reduce high and regressive property taxes.

«If we are combining that with a living wage and single payer healthcare, workers will not see that as a regressive tax, but you combine that with a wealth tax.

Mr Clegg had strong criticisms of the Tories for their «socially regressive» plans for spending cuts and their «obsession» with Europe, which he claimed undermined Britain's influence in the world.

It seems to me to be a deeply regressive notion, as you rightly point out, to cling to the antiquated idea that the greatest pool of talent resides with those traditionally in power.