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by dane-pgp 1953 days ago
> The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid roughly $616 billion, or 38.5 percent of all income taxes

What's that as a percentage of their annual increase in wealth? By my calculation, with a wealth increase of "$2.5 trillion a year" (from the article), that income tax amount works out as a flat 25% rate.