However, his conclusion - that this trend "seems to herald a dubious, regressive form of equality" - struck me as off the mark.

Sales tax is a regressive form of taxation based on what people buy rather than their income.

Studies show that excise taxes are the most regressive form of taxation, and efforts to increase consumer taxes disproportionately hit the poor.

"It's a regressive form of business that really has no redeeming value."

Adding sales tax or value-added tax to medicines is the most regressive form of taxation, and no country should do it.

These are the most regressive form of taxation.

And lowincome citizens are unfairly burdened with a highly regressive form of taxation.

But the assumption that they are therefore simpler, regressive forms of life now seems to be quite erroneous.

Critics of receiver licensing point out that a licence is a regressive form of taxation, because poor people pay more for the service in relation to income.

Hemon's own brainy postmodernism mostly takes the infinitely regressive form of fictionalizing about fictionalizing.