"In 2020, the bottom half of taxpayers earned 10.2 percent of total AGI and paid 2.3 percent of all federal individual income taxes. The top 1 percent earned 22.2 percent of total AGI and paid 42.3 percent of all federal income taxes."
According to https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income....
Why do people like you always exclude payroll taxes and state taxes in counting who paid the most taxes. You only cherry pick the most progressive piece of the entire taxes paid
I'm not even American mate. I was just interested in the statistics and looked it up online (maybe poorly) and posted it here since I assumed others would be. I didn't even comment whether this was good or bad!
Do you have the numbers you talk about?