"The top 1 percent of tax payers pays the most tax" is a tautology. GP talked about the uber wealthy.
What does "the most tax" mean? If you mean "most of the tax" how is that a tautology? If everyone paid $1 the top 1 percent would pay 1% of the total - which is far from "most".
Also, the language can be ambiguous in some places but it says "by Income Group" so the top 1 percent of tax payers probably refers actually to the top 1 percent of (adjusted) earners.
> GP talked about the uber wealthy.
And GGP talked about how "a minority of taxpayers finance the government".
5% is a minority paying 61% of the taxes.
25% is a minority paying 87% of the taxes.
> And GGP talked about how "a minority of taxpayers finance the government".
Your reply was to GP, and it wasn't one pointing that out.
(And actually GP would only make sense at all as a reply to GGP if he meant lower tax amount in dollars - not just a lower tax rate.)
The uber-rich aren't the top earners.
Capital holdings and labor income aren't the same thing.