Bottom line: I take back the claim that very little lies on the corporations and the rich; I should say very little (in relative and absolute terms) lies on cor

Bottom line: I take back the claim that very little lies on the corporations and the rich; I should say very little (in relative and absolute terms) lies on corporations and not enough (in absolute terms) on the rich. ------------- 1. The fact you cited is weird to me, since the top tax brackets in the US are pretty close together, and overall, rather low: https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brac... but - I guess I should have accounted for the skewed distribution of income in the US... for the top 10% to pay 75% of income tax, let's do some cocktail-napkin math to see how bad this is. So, if we have a flat tax rate, this situation would mean that the top 10% make 3x more in total than the bottom 90%, or, 27x more per capita. Assuming the average tax rate on the bottom 90% is, say, 12%, and on the top 10% is 36%, that would mean the average income in the top decile is 9x higher than in the average in the other 9 deciles. According to this: https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ the average and median for the bottom 90% should be about similar, meaning that the average (not median) top-decile person makes 9 x $45,000/annum = $405,000/annum. The median top-decile person makes $201,000/annum, or about 4.5x than the median person on the bottom 90%. If we were to compare with the median person over the entire population - the median top-decile person makes 4x as much as the median person overall. Ouch. 2. I was naively interpreting this: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/government-revenue/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover... i.e. that individual income tax accounts for 51% of US federal income, while corporate income/earnings tax accounts for 4%. I mistakenly assumed that the vast majority of workers pay the majority of taxes. I wonder, though, how that chart accounts for Capital Gains tax.