Why doesn't the tab evenly space the words?

Okay in my program someone suggested using "\t" instead of "". When I look at my output, the words are not evenly spaced. I want it to

look like this:

ValueSquareCube

But it looks more like this:

ValueSquareCube

If you look, the word Cube is too close to the word Square. The distance between the word Value and the word Square is greater than the distance between Square and Cube. Now why is that? Here is the code I'm using:

System.out.println("Value" +"\t" +"Square" +"\t" +"Cube");

[658 byte] By [357maga] at [2007-11-27 9:50:36]