Mathing It Out

Yes, the top 1% pay about 40% of the taxes.

A better way to put it is that the top 1% pay $880 Billion a year in taxes, while controlling - and living on - more than $53 Trillion.

And an even better way to put it:

$880,000,000,000 ÷ $50,000,000,000,000 = 1.7%

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