| 21. | Over all, the states count on sales and similar regressive taxes for just under half of their revenue.
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| 22. | Georgia is phasing out one of the most regressive taxes in the country, a sales tax on groceries.
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| 23. | Conservatives cannot effectively make the argument that the lottery is a regressive tax, a rip-off of the poor.
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| 24. | It was clear that it was the highest tax and the most regressive tax on poor people ever.
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| 25. | "This is a regressive tax, " said Bruce Meyer, a labor economist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
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| 26. | Ministers'money was resented because it was a regressive tax and applied only in towns with a Catholic majority.
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| 27. | He opposes the North Carolina Education Lottery and would make income taxes more progressive while cutting regressive taxes.
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| 28. | This attitude not only encourages anti-smokers to tolerate grossly regressive taxes and even grosser infringements of individual liberty.
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| 29. | We cannot stand by to let this regressive tax policy help private schools at the expense of public schools.
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| 30. | Passengers are hurt doubly because of increased air fares due to ATC congestion and the imposition of regressive tax,
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