claim: "the top 1 percent pay 45 percent of all taxes in the country."
author: jeb bush
evidence_1: apr 18, 2016 ... 77.5 million households do not pay federal individual income tax. ... is the  exception to the rule: the top 1% of taxpayers pay a higher effective income-tax  rate than any ... read: compared to most countries, we're undertaxed.
evidence_2: apr 14, 2015 ... the top-earning 1 percent of americans will pay nearly half of ... are expected to  pay 15 percent of all federal income taxes in 2014, according to the study. ...  income tax than other countries, with 37 percent of total government ...
evidence_3: oct 16, 2015 ... a tax-the-rich plan could raise enough to, for example, eliminate all public ... the  top 1 percent on average already pay roughly a third of their incomes to the ...  increasing it to 45 percent brings in a whopping $276 billion. ... cost of eliminating  undergraduate tuition at all the country's four-year public colleges ...
evidence_4: oct 6, 2015 ... the tax policy center has updated its estimate of the percentage of ... many  people file returns and whether those filers pay any tax—although it takes ... we  write about business news from the nation's capital with a focus on ...
evidence_5: nov 19, 2015 ... every income group besides the top 1 percent of taxpayers reported higher  income in 2013 than the previous year. all income groups paid ...