[mdmull]

Corporate income taxes are in fact, the flattest tax as all consumers of the product produced pay for them, even the poor.(although they may pay them with MY money).

"Redistribution" and progressive taxes are not quite synonomous. Progressive taxes take more from the higher income earner, to fill the coffers of the government, to fund the functions thereof. Redistribution then awards some of that higher amount to the lower earners. distribute - to divide & give out shares. Hence the association of "distribute the wealth" with socialism - take from the rich & give to the poor. emphasis on "take"