Does our current progressive income tax (which requires those in higher income brackets to pay a higher

Question:

Does our current progressive income tax (which requires those in higher income brackets to pay a higher tax) tend to heighten or lessen the unequal of income in the economy?
Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...