The addition of FICA certainly makes total taxation of incomes more regressive than just the income tax is.

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If you measure dollars spent per dollars of income, the tax is regressive.

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FSCs tend to be the richer ones, so the programme adds a regressive element to the otherwise flat corporate income tax.

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Critics will call the income-for-sales-tax swap regressive because everyone pays it.

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And a gasoline tax would be regressive, falling disproportionately on low-income people, many of whom rely on their cars to get to work.

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The licence fee is already a regressive tax, because the poor pay a higher proportion of their income than the rich for the same service.

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This is on the regressive side since it would represent 2.5% of the after-tax income of lower income families and less than 1% of the income of higher income families.

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Finally, because the rate cuts are so regressive, House Republicans would have to heavily skew offsetting tax increases to high-income households if they want to keep the distribution of taxes roughly what it is today.

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Second, a carbon tax is regressive, because it places a larger percentage burden on low-income households.

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