 how much did you collect from the top one percent before the tax cuts i believe it was 40 or 41 today it's either 45 or 46 so they're paying more than 10 percent more in in the final payment so that's after the gimmicks after the deductions after the tax shelters and after all the fun and games of 90 000 pages of irs code that's what they finally pay the top one percent are paying more