From your same report: "The share of reported income earned by the top 1 percent of taxpayers rose slightly to 20.7 percent in 2015. Their share of federal indi

From your same report: "The share of reported income earned by the top 1 percent of taxpayers rose slightly to 20.7 percent in 2015. Their share of federal individual income taxes fell slightly, to 39.0 percent." This is the problem people are trying to point out. Yes, poor people pay a lower % of their income in taxes than rich people, because the real number is more important due to the static cost of goods across all income brackets. The problem is, everyone expects people to pitch in their share, and it feels like the ultra-wealthy and corporations frequently find or create new ways to pay less than "they're supposed to". What anyone is "supposed" to pay in taxes is obviously entirely subjective, but when you hear things like "rich people are making more money while also paying less in taxes" at the same time you're hearing about how our economy is funneling wealth away from the lower and middle classes and into the investor and upper classes, people get annoyed.