> “Our tax code isn’t progressive. It’s not even flat. For people like me—and I assume there are millions of us—it’s regressive. For many people, the more you make, the lower the rate you pay.” Disproven by facts from the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the left-leaning Tax Policy Center. Eh, kind of. The people who pay the most percentage taxes are high income employees. An extreme case would be high-end professional athletes, but more commonly we'd be talking about lawyers, doctors, scientists, some engineers. These have the fewest mechanisms to avoid taxes. Business owners/self employed make more money, but they have lots of tools to avoid taxes. So it's probably a curve that goes up from zero, peaks somewhere above the median, and decreases from there, though not reaching zero again.