How to Use progressivity in a Sentence

progressivity

noun

• That doesn’t mean each tax measure that flunks the progressivity test will be scrapped — far from it.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• This is what turns very mild decline in progressivity into rapid drop.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 18 Oct. 2019
• The reason the tax code is so complex has a lot to do with its alleged progressivity.
  — WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
• Even with the high progressivity of the current tax code, the bills are extraordinary.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
• So indexing capital gains would reduce the progressivity of the income tax.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
• In this way law resembles many humanities, which don't seem to exhibit the same progressivity of science.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2011
• The second source of opposition grew out of a broader animus to the notion of progressivity itself.
  — Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
• But that progressivity holds true only for direct taxes on personal and corporate income.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• The lesson there is sometimes designs intended to introduce progressivity into the fee structure can backfire.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• Brie Flora, 30, a jeweler and metalsmith who came from Boston, is the face of such progressivity.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• The increase in the credit’s value and eligibility changes for households with very low incomes also marked an increase in the progressivity of the tax system.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The party could also go more ambitious, and offer a detailed plan for overhauling the tax system with an eye toward simplicity and progressivity.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 29 May 2017
• Most societies would balk at the level and progressivity of the taxes—reaching up to 90 percent—that Piketty and his colleagues propose.
  — Arvind Subramanian, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
• Democratic tax policy is wedded to an understanding of progressivity that doesn’t bode well for Americans abroad.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• That last proposal regarding progressivity is the most important.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• To the extent that our society values progressivity in its tax code — and mobility on its socioeconomic ladder — this policy makes no sense.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
• And beyond a certain point, progressivity conflicts with efficiency.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• The plan indicates Republicans would not change the progressivity of the current code, meaning that the rich would not get bigger cuts than the middle class and lower-income Americans.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• The measure will generate a fair degree of progressivity in the water tariff policy for domestic consumers along with sensitising them on their consumption quantum.
  — Niyati Seth, Quartz, 8 June 2022
• Everybody that experiences the sound, the vibration, the progressivity of the thermodynamic engine, cannot say that another type of propulsion is better.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 15 July 2024
• Sending checks to rich people makes the program less efficient economically, but serves the political purpose of disguising its progressivity.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, The Denver Post, 29 July 2019
• Nonetheless, a look at the entire tax-and-transfer system — and a consideration of income classes beyond the very top earners — reveals the system’s increasing progressivity.
  — Tyler Cowen, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2024
• To roll back this loss of progressivity, the economists propose steep increases in the corporate tax and the individual income tax for the wealthiest households, along with a new annual wealth tax for those with a net worth of more than $50 million.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• However, progressivity within the top 1% percent has been virtually eliminated.
  — Dylan Dusseault, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Continental Europe meanwhile saw a lesser decline in its tax progressivity, while wage inequality was also moderated by educational and wage-setting policies that were relatively more favorable to low and middle-income groups.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 29 July 2018
• In 2017, Saudi Arabia’s decision to grant the humanoid robot Sophia honorary citizenship became a statement of muslim progressivity and willingness to accept new tech.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025