I don't have nearly the problem of the top 20% paying virtually all of the income taxes as I do the government paying so many perfectly healthy people so much money to do essentially nothing.  A single mom of 2 kids would have to find a job that pays $60,000 to earn as much after taxes as she would get on welfare.  Healthy single adults with no kids have to earn well over $30,000 to get as much after welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, and so forth.  What is killing this country is not the rich paying so much, rather it is the poor paying zero and receiving all sorts of financial help all their lives with no incentive to better themselves.