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What does it mean to be progressive?

Writer: Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Oct 18, 2025
1 min read

At the very basic level, it's the foolhardy belief that one might leave the world better off than one found it, or that one's children might inherit a better world than ours. Then there's all the technical hullabaloo about progressive taxing, which means that taxes get steadily higher as people's incomes increase. It's hardly rocket science.

 
 
 

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