[lucio]

You've been misled

>The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...

[ryandrake]

Which seems to make sense since the top 1% average over 39 times more income than the bottom 90 percent[1] and hold about 38% of all privately held wealth in the US[2].

1: https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...