How to Use "regressive" with Example Sentences

1. General sales tax is a regressive tax .
2. Even in rich countries , fuel tax cuts are regressive .
3. Too many asian governments still waste oodles of public money on regressive universal subsidies .
4. Moving to a single rate of vat without exemptions would eliminate this distortion but it would also be regressive .
5. Keynes opened the way to political economy ; but economists opted for a regressive research programme , disguised by sophisticated mathematics , that set it apart .