General sales tax is a regressive tax .

一般销售税是累退税。

Even in rich countries , fuel tax cuts are regressive .

即使在一些富裕国家，油价也是递减的。

Too many asian governments still waste oodles of public money on regressive universal subsidies .

有太多的亚洲政府仍在浪费大量的公共资金用于退化的全民补贴。

Moving to a single rate of vat without exemptions would eliminate this distortion but it would also be regressive .

实行无免税的单一增值税税率将会消除这种混乱局面，但是也是后退的。

Keynes opened the way to political economy ; but economists opted for a regressive research programme , disguised by sophisticated mathematics , that set it apart .

凯恩斯开辟了政治经济学的道路；但经济学家以复杂的数学为掩饰，选择了退化的、将之分开的研究程序。