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View attachment 357948 The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 26.9 percent individual income tax rate, which is more than seven times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.7 percent).Nov 13, 2018
now what, no cops no emts no firefighters... now what ? atlas shrugged ? i guess the next thing would be to force some people to be cops, and.....
If the top 1% were to disappear, there would be much more income and wealth for the general population, all of whom would pay higher taxes, and have more taxabale income.
You talk as if there is a set a mount of money within the US. There isn't.