Im not saying the top 10% dont. I know they do. The point is to the narrative that we at one time had tax rates that were in the 70% or higher stratus might be true but it's a moot point because no one paid them. You could make a tax bracket with a rate of 100% but if no one is in that bracket it's meaningless.
What the progressives always seem to miss is that if you make the taxes high enough people will just stop making the money, or pass that cost down the line to a consumer. 30% of 100 is more than 90% of 0.