regressivity
Poor pay more
Regressivity is the quality of placing proportionally greater burden on those with less.
The term appears most often in tax policy: a regressive tax takes a larger percentage from low-income earners than from high-income earners.
Sales taxes have regressivity because everyone pays the same rate regardless of income.
Critics pointed to the regressivity of the proposed flat tax.
Unfair distribution or treatment
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
- unfairnessUnjust or biased treatment
- stratificationDivision into distinct levels
- classismPrejudice by economic rank
Incremental consumption tax
- GSTBritish baseline hour
- tariffTax on traded goods
- titheTenth for clergy
- capitationPer-capita fixed payment
Reverting to former sins
- reversionReturn to former state
- rollbackReturn to prior condition
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- declineDecrease or refuse
erosion · setback · undoing · retreat · weakening · dismantling
State of being purchasable
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
- tollFee for passage
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
inequity
Unfair distribution or treatment
- disparityMeasurable difference between things
- unfairnessUnjust or biased treatment
- stratificationDivision into distinct levels
classism · plutocracy · poverty · privilege
VAT
Incremental consumption tax
backsliding
Reverting to former sins
- reversionReturn to former state
- rollbackReturn to prior condition
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
decline · erosion · setback · undoing · retreat · weakening · dismantling
affordability
State of being purchasable
regressivityprogressivity
Rate increase with income
progressive taxation · progressiveness · advancement · progression · improvement
progress, aggressive, progressive, aggression, regress, egress, ingress, retrograde, digress