I would feel sorry for the 1% paying such a high percentage of taxes except the reason they make so much money is because they buy Congress and write the rules guaranteeing themselves financial advantages. The 1% hire accountants, lawyers, and lobbyists to look after their interests. Factories are moved abroad and cheap foreign labor is allowed in to increase the profits of the 1%. When they retire, they can deduct their investments in assisted living places at whatever high income bracket they are in. That's socialized health care for the rich! Poorer people would have to pay the full price or only get a 15% tax deduction. Wars are fought for oil. The owners of Halliburton do well while lower middle class kids have to fight those wars to fund their educations. So yeah the 1% pay a disproportionate share of taxes but its often on profits that come slide down the tilted table they created.