But the sales tax, which can be levied by layers of governments, is a regressive tax.
It is called a regressive tax because you pay the same however much you earn.
Inflation as a product of intentionally devaluing the dollar is a regressive tax on all of us.
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He says he is "amazed" Congress is leaping for what he considers a massive, regressive tax measure.
We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held.
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The licence fee is already a regressive tax, because the poor pay a higher proportion of their income than the rich for the same service.
Which is, in short, to have a more regressive tax system than the United States and a more progressive benefits and transfers system than the United States.
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In the UK, given the tax system, this would mean increasing VAT (a nice regressive tax) and then, say, abolishing the 50 p additional tax rate on higher earners.
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BBC, the harder it becomes to justify the flat-rate licence fee (in all but name, a regressive tax) levied on all the country's television owners to pay for the corporation.
He says the sales levy "is widely regarded to be the most regressive tax that states impose, " which is funny given that Mr. Patrick is the same guy who raised the rate to 6.25% from 5% in 2009.
However British National Party MEP Andrew Brons called for VAT to be scrapped and replaced with a local sales tax, claiming that VAT was a "regressive" tax, paid disproportionately by the less well-off.
This is unfortunate because it would be difficult to devise a more regressive food tax on the poor and the elderly than the one promised by Proposition 37.
Second, a carbon tax is regressive, because it places a larger percentage burden on low-income households.
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If you measure dollars spent per dollars of income, the tax is regressive.
Critics suggest that a national sales tax is regressive, favoring the rich.
Critics will call the income-for-sales-tax swap regressive because everyone pays it.
News reports that the US tax system is regressive make me want to throw hamburgers at the screen.
The addition of FICA certainly makes total taxation of incomes more regressive than just the income tax is.
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And a gasoline tax would be regressive, falling disproportionately on low-income people, many of whom rely on their cars to get to work.
Any realistic, practical plan to limit tax expenditure cuts to a high-income group would require a phase-in of the cuts or other accommodations, which would add to marginal tax rates, reduce the potential revenue gain, and make the resulting tax change more regressive.
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Some criticise the charge on the grounds that it is a flat tax, and therefore regressive.
The tax take in Latin America is still low and tax systems are often regressive compared to those in Europe.
It was concerns about how regressive the switch to a flat tax would be that caused Mr Forbes's campaigns to founder.
In an interview in Houston this summer, Mr Castro acknowledged that the tax would be mildly regressive, but small enough to be worth it.
One attribute we can be pretty sure of, however, is that it is very likely to make the tax code much more regressive than it is today.
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Yet it is a tangled mess, increasingly reliant on regressive taxes, such as the payroll tax, and full of subsidies that benefit rich people while reducing economic efficiency.
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FSCs tend to be the richer ones, so the programme adds a regressive element to the otherwise flat corporate income tax.
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