US tax system is the most progressive in the OECD [1] US top tiny amount of incomes pay vastly more, even per dollar earned, than in any other first world coun

US tax system is the most progressive in the OECD [1] US top tiny amount of incomes pay vastly more, even per dollar earned, than in any other first world country, where middle and lower class pay a much larger share. Around the bottom 50% of US taxpayers pay zero federal income tax, and after post tax transfers (aid, etc...) the lowest decent sized chunk get money back, i.e., negative federal income tax. Then, after already covering the vast majority of US tax burden, the really wealthy end up paying another large chunk in estate taxes (and no, there isn't magic sauce where they all hide all assets in foreign lands - you can simply go over public IRS data, or CBO data and see). Here's historical effective rates by quintile. Bottom two were 9.3% and 15.0%, top 27.1% in 1979, in 2019 they were 0.6%, 8.9%, 19.3% top 1% remains over 30%. https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-average-federal-tax-rates-all-households https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-average-fe... How much more progressive is enough? https://www.cbpp.org/research/what-do-oecd-data-really-show-about-us-taxes-and-reducing-inequality https://www.cbpp.org/research/what-do-oecd-data-really-show-...