A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.

像人头税一样，递减税占穷人收入的比例更大。

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The addition of FICA certainly makes total taxation of incomes more regressive than just the income tax is.

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Jindal recently suffered a political setback when he proposed cutting the (progressive) income tax and raising the (regressive) sales tax, I guess because poor people in Louisiana have just been having it too easy.

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If you measure dollars spent per dollars of income, the tax is regressive.

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