Definitions
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- noun The quality or degree of being progressive.
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- noun The condition of being
progressive
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- noun advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
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Examples
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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.
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Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"I think it's very important for us to maintain what's called progressivity in the tax code," the president said.
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