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Nandy has previously said the charge was "deeply regressive" and that she was thinking "quite radically and creatively" about alternatives.

Tariffs, Pancotti said, are a regressive tax that disproportionately impacts lower earners because, in essence, a tariff is a sales tax on imported goods.

He expressed concern about the regressive nature of the fee, which will disproportionately hurt low-income residents, since they will pay the same amount as wealthier residents.

They were then and they are now just another form of taxation, and a regressive one, which he simply cannot fathom.

We shouldn’t be shocked that a kid raised in a regressive society somehow managed to remain there, whether by choice or one of her mother’s recurrent wrong turns and close calls.