On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders used an anecdote to claim the tax system disproportionately affects wealthier earners.

As Sanders put it, “Suppose that every day 10 people, for our purposes we’ll say reporters, go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If these 10 reporters paid their tab every night the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this. The first four, the poorest, would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1, the sixth would pay $3, the seventh would pay $7, the eighth would pay $12, the ninth would pay $18, the 10th, the richest, would pay $59.”