This time around, however, raising taxes on the poor seems to be a point of pride among Republican candidates, although Mr Cain has modified his original plan slightly to make it less regressive.

然而，尽管凯恩先生已对原始计划稍作调整使之递减性降低，这次对穷人增税似乎在共和党候选人中达到了骄傲的地步。

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Second, soda taxes are regressive as they punish the poor.

第二，含糖饮料税有损穷人因此是倒退性措施。

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VAT, like carbon taxes, are socially regressive.

增值税(VAT)与碳税一样，是一种社会倒退。

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This attitude not only encourages anti-smokers to tolerate grossly regressive taxes and even grosser infringements of individual liberty.

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But with regressive taxes, a perverse Robin Hood state steals from the middle class and poor to give back to the middle class and poor!

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Yet it is a tangled mess, increasingly reliant on regressive taxes, such as the payroll tax, and full of subsidies that benefit rich people while reducing economic efficiency.

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