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progressivity

pro gre si vuh tee

  • n  advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods

  • The only way that real change a universal health-care system (along the lines enacted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts), a real alternative energy plan, progressivity in .
  • 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.
  • Meanwhile, the tax system overall remains progressive, but most of that progressivity is found toward the bottom of the income distribution.
News & Articles

  • Alaska needs better than SB 21 and ACES
    Crippling, investment choking and punitive. Those are a few of the unfriendly words opponents of Proposition 1 are using to describe how the progressivity feature of ACES was hurting Alaska.
    Feb. 5, 2014 - Juneau Empire
Quotes

  • Michael Gerson in Slate
    On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist (and former Bush speechwriter) Michael Gerson argued in an op-ed that "Obama chose a time of recession to propose a massive increase in progressivity-a 10-year, trillion-dollar haul from the rich, already being...
  • Kamal Nath in Sify
    Opposing the US proposal, Nath stated: "We (the G-20) had already agreed to the banded formula in the July Framework. Progressivity is nothing but the Swiss formula which we had already rejected."
  • Isiah Leggett in Washington Post
    Just like the governor, I believe strongly in progressivity,Leggett told lawmakers.

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