If your stastistics only look at income tax and ignores capital gains, you'll have successfully fit  the data to your position, not the other way around. The fact remains (& the evidence bears out) that the very rich pay a lower rate in most cases because their primary source of income is not wages, but assets. Capital gains are capped at 20%. Combined with losses, people like Warren buffet and Donald Trump can pay 17% or less. I pay 30%. 

Why are you skirting this central point?

I'll ask again: you seem eager to hide behind the argument that tax reform should be real, substantial, and meaningful. Based on that, you're opposed to another convoluted shell game like the one currently proposed, right? If not, how do you reconcile that with your high-minded rhetoric?