regressive

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And Chris Birt of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says the "elephant in the room" is what he calls the lack of any serious plans to reform the "regressive" council tax.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The U.S. tax and transfer system—referring to government payments made to low-income taxpayers—is “highly progressive,” and although states generally have more regressive tax systems, they have more generous distribution programs, Walczak says.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Although the manosphere content often cited by media and scholars is not necessarily racially regressive, it is distinctly gender regressive, and that appears to be taking a toll on Gen Z.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026

The other systems have degenerated to a greater or less degree, but such regressive changes are more than compensated for by the superior control exerted by the improved brain.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward