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progressivity - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
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noun progressive
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noun
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progressive + -ity
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The typical objection to a sales or value added tax is that it is regressive but I think you could maintain progressivity through tax credits for lower incomes.
Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax 2009
Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory.
Matthew Yglesias » Budgeting, Pence-Style 2010
However, if progressivity is a requirement in the real world, the tax could be coupled with a standard per capita rebate that would, in effect, become a negative tax at lower income levels/consumption levels, and as you go up the income/consumption scale, the tax bite progressively gets to be greater.
Taxes and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
As an aside, how much of the decrease in progressivity comes from greater breadth of stock ownership -- if more people own stock, then more people are imputed to be be paying corporate income taxes -- not that such imputations have anything to do with actual tax incidence?
The Distribution of Tax Burdens, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
That is called progressivity and, of course, it is one of the most contentious aspects of any tax system.
Marcelo Giugale: Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform? Marcelo Giugale 2011
Flatness itself has just about nothing to do with simplicity; the only complexity added by progressivity is looking up a number in a chart at the end.
Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax 2009
That is called progressivity and, of course, it is one of the most contentious aspects of any tax system.
Marcelo Giugale: Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform? Marcelo Giugale 2011
He seems to suggest that some progressivity is good in the tax code, but that progressivity should be minimized (or at least not increased) during difficult economic times.
Wealth Redistribution, Tax Brackets and the Presidential Endgame - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
Or maybe progressivity is one of the aspects of SS that you want to eliminate????
Sound Politics: Questions for Darcy Burner on Social Security 2006
"I think it's very important for us to maintain what's called progressivity in the tax code," the president said.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011
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