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No, it is a description of the tax code. It is not a judgement of the tax code. It is a 'progressive tax' or 'progressive tax rate'. It has nothing to do with 'progress' or the 'Progressive party'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax



Yes, but people call our taxcode Progressive, when as Buffet point's out it's regressive at the top.




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