[dmuch]

Well duh,the top 1% have more that 27% of the wealth...

[keketi]

Income taxes are paid on... income.

[Chinjut]

Income's value is… diminishing with existing wealth. Receiving 20% of the income and having an amazingly outsized 40% of the wealth is more than enough reason to consider seeking funding from the 1% rather than their far poorer countrymates.