| It is taxation by the back door, but it is an unequal and largely regressive tax. |
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| If he realizes this goal, he will have succeeded in passing the most regressive tax program in U.S. history. |
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| Still, properly understood, it's hard to forget how much this regressive tax takes from all of us. |
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| This was a regressive tax system, but less regressive than that of any other industrialized country. |
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| Washington, which has no state income tax, has one of the most regressive tax systems in the nation. |
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| That's why sales tax is often denigrated as a regressive tax. |
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| Another blatantly regressive tax system is the social security system. |
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| In the very next year, John of Gaunt used the last Parliament of Edward III's reign to institute the most regressive tax ever witnessed in later medieval England. |
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| The implicit subsidization of large energy users, arguably a regressive tax, must stop. |
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| This in turn means that corruption acts as a regressive tax that increases income inequality. |
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| I need not remind the member of the EI tax, the most regressive tax there is. |
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| Yes, it's the old regressive tax argument, but it's also common sense. |
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| While I do have somewhat of an issue with the fact that this would be a regressive tax that would fall disproportionately on the poor, the concept is a sound one. |
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| This most regressive tax, and I am using his words, is going to hurt families. |
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| It has attracted the criticism of the Auditor General and is an unfair and regressive tax. |
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| It is holding Canadians back because of repressive and regressive tax structures. |
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| If we really represent the best interests of our constituents, we will be voting no on this regressive tax. |
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| Education and literacy are critical to the development of our country and a regressive tax on reading hampers that development. |
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| They ask that this regressive tax on newspapers, reading materials and magazines be removed when any harmonization takes place. |
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| The Conservatives and the Liberals are guilty of imposing a regressive tax on the most vulnerable members of society. |
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| Extortion hits low-income households with a regressive tax that saps scarce household resources. |
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| Major public expenditure cuts and regressive tax changes were announced in the June 2010 budget. |
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| We have heard from many of our constituents that those on fixed incomes and pensions will be adversely impacted by, as my colleague from Vancouver Kingsway pointed out, this regressive tax. |
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| A regressive tax is one that hits the poorest hardest. |
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| Does Costello think a broadened GST will restore foreign aid cuts and that a regressive tax is OK because, as he stated, poor people don't eat much fresh food? |
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| First, there is the shameful government response, the smug and idiotic claim that it is actually doing something with the bogus regressive tax giveaway of a few bucks a month. |
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| A regressive tax is applied to someone regardless of the person's income. |
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| In fact, the lottery is essentially a large regressive tax. |
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| The tax regime on lower income levels should be reviewed in order to remove unwarranted barriers to work resulting from regressive tax schedules in both income tax and social security contributions. |
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| I want to point out that some of the taxes, like a tax on capital, for example, is such a bad and regressive tax that I do not know why the government did not address that up front. |
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| Increasing VAT would cost an average family pounds 425, a regressive tax which clobbers low and middle income homes much harder than the wealthiest. |
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