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Worse, the tariff burden is a regressive tax that falls hardest on lower-income households and small businesses with less bargaining power.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
With the most regressive taxes in the nation hammering low-income earners more than the rich.
—Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Johnson’s motive for fighting the video gambling terminals would be because revenues would eat into the city’s first casino at Bally’s Chicago, which was billed as a way to help buoy pension funds, and because critics say vice taxes are a regressive way to raise revenue.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.
—Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
With the most regressive taxes in the nation hammering low-income earners more than the rich.
—Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Johnson’s motive for fighting the video gambling terminals would be because revenues would eat into the city’s first casino at Bally’s Chicago, which was billed as a way to help buoy pension funds, and because critics say vice taxes are a regressive way to raise revenue.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.
—Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regressive
degressive
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Three frames from a video (below) showing a 70 kg climber ascending a 3.7 m vertical glass surface using a synthetic adhesion system with degressive load-sharing and gecko-inspired adhesives.—
Seriously Science,
Discover Magazine,
3 Dec. 2014
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