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how much did those top 1% make in income out of the total?

"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?

I'm glad you pointed this out. The parent comment to yours is the equivalent of people seeing a big red map of the US during the presidential race and saying "how come the Democrats win when there's so much red?!", as if land can vote -_-

In America, land can vote, although not in the Presidential election. The Senate.

Still not land voting. Seeing as RI gets the same number of votes as AK. And both senate candidates are selected by popular vote in the state, so even if most of the state is red, big blue cities can swing the vote.

RI has the same approximate population as AK. What people mean when they say land votes, is AK compared to NY. AK has a population of < 1M while NY has a population of > 8 million. Proportionally, Alaskans have > 8x the representation in the senate that New Yorkers have.

I haven't heard people say "land votes" (except in this thread). Only, "land doesn't vote".

Not a proportional vote but a territorial vote nonetheless.

It is the same in the presidential election, since number of electoral votes from the state includes number of senators.

Dollar earned for dollar earned the top 1% pays 6 times the tax as the bottom 50%

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