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 .