claim: "the top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."
author: michele bachmann
evidence_1: apr 14, 2015 ... top 1% pay half of the income tax 11:40 am et tue, 14 april 2015 | 00:33. the  top-earning 1 percent of americans will pay nearly half of the federal income  taxes for 2014, the largest share in at least three years, according to a study.  according to a projection from the non-partisan tax policy center, the top ...
evidence_2: feb 1, 2017 ... [1]. the data demonstrates that the u.s. individual income tax continues to be  very progressive, borne mainly by the highest income earners. ... the top 1  percent of taxpayers paid $543 billion, or 39.48 percent of all income taxes, while  the bottom 90 percent paid $400 billion, or 29.12 percent of all income ...
evidence_3: apr 13, 2016 ... it's what other people pay, or don't pay, that bothers them. just over half (54%) of  americans surveyed in fall by pew research center said they pay about the right  amount in taxes considering what they get from the federal government, versus  40% who said they pay more than their fair share. but in a ...
evidence_4: jan 7, 2014 ... the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay more in federal income taxes than the bottom  90 percent. ... of taxpayers with an increasingly larger percentage of the tax  burden (the top 50 percent of income earners paid 97 percent of all taxes in 2011 ), there are basic government finance issues with such a tax code.
evidence_5: the answer: not by much, if we count all of the taxes that people pay, from sales  taxes to property taxes to payroll taxes (in other words, not just income taxes).  and the top 1% of income earners actually pay a smaller percentage of their  incomes to taxes than the 9% just below them. these findings are discussed in  detail ...