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the top 1% in the US earn 21% of all income earned in the US. You'd predict they pay _____% of all income tax paid in the US

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33.3%
11-21%
11.7%
21-30%
13%
31%+
42.1%

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By earned I mean, somebody somewhere decided to give the person money in exchange for value the person provided to that somebody..

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you mean they earn money because they invested their money into something that ended up being successful?

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Usually it's because they're in a position of power over millions of laborers, and skim off the productivity of their work. That's why the Walmart siblings are among the richest, and their employees rely on food stamps and medicaid.