bracket creep
Americannoun
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To avoid bracket creep, the government began adjusting, or indexing, tax brackets for inflation in the early 1980s, after a long period of raging inflation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
And if he had run in 1982, as inflation was easing, voters might have been less worried about bracket creep, and Reagan’s anti-tax message perhaps wouldn’t have resonated.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
And even if you had bracket creep then you can maybe recognize that you have bracket creep now.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2019
How fast and far "bracket creep" begins remains anyone's guess.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2013
Meanwhile, taxpayers are being hurt by so-called bracket creep, which keeps pushing them into higher tax categories as their inflation-bloated paychecks increase.
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