&quot;In 2015, the average household in the top 1 percent received pensions subsidies worth over $13,000 while the average benefit for a middle-class family was only $1,000.&quot;<p>The reason is that the top 1% made and contributed probably 10 or 20 or 30 times more than any middle-class family.<p>In addition to this, they all pay employees, which contribute even more tax money to the system (which is never discussed in articles like this).<p>This article paints the false narrative that the 1% aren&#x27;t paying their &#x27;fair share&#x27;.  In fact, they pay the majority of federal taxes every year and corporate taxes are some of the highest in the world...and you want them to pay more?!<p>The majority of stories I see about companies paying $0 in taxes, etc are nearly all reporters purposely preying on the ignorance of the average person that has no idea how corporate taxes work.<p>For instance, I got back thousands of dollars last year and if you took it out of context, you might think that I paid no taxes that year.  However, it&#x27;s only because corporations have to pay estimated quarterly taxes, and if your sales are down and you don&#x27;t make as much, you get the extra money back (that you over-estimated based on current sales).<p>So we could change the system, where the government takes way more, in an effort to be &#x27;fair&#x27;.  But the problem is it won&#x27;t be the same.  The government doesn&#x27;t create anything.<p>The 1% will leave the country well before this happened, and the middle class will be be the next one in line.