progressivity

IPA: prɑgrɛsˈɪvʌti

Examples of "progressivity" in Sentences

Or maybe progressivity is one of the aspects of SS that you want to eliminate????
That is called progressivity and, of course, it is one of the most contentious aspects of any tax system.
"I think it's very important for us to maintain what's called progressivity in the tax code," the president said.
Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.