45% of households pay no or negative income tax at all. Remember some of them get more back than they would have paid, so negative taxes paid. in 2014 the top

45% of households pay no or negative income tax at all. Remember some of them get more back than they would have paid, so negative taxes paid. in 2014 the top 1% of income earners earned 20.6% of all income and paid 39.5% of income taxes collected. the bottom 50% earned 11.2% of income and paid 3.45% of income taxes. https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170201091804/TaxFoundation-FF540.pdf https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170201091804/TaxFoundation...