Yes, you implicitly did, because the top 10% definitionally includes the top 1% (and the top 0.01%).
I'm not really sure what you're trying to argue for/against here. Yes, people in the top 10% of income-earners collectively pay the majority of income taxes, dollar for dollar, and yes, we've been hearing variants of what Jonathan Chait called "The Stat" for years: the highest-earning 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all income taxes.[1] As Chait points out, "'The Stat' is literally true, but it is deeply misleading." For instance, FICA is not a progressive tax; it's a flat tax that stops being collected at around at around $150K of income. Somebody making $80K pays way, way, way more FICA as a percentage of their income as somebody making $800K does.
While I'm not suggesting we need a wealth tax, start burning down mansions, etc., etc., it's at least worth considering the possibility that America has a tax system which disproportionately favors the wealthy. That multimillionaires and billionaires pay, dollar for dollar, more taxes than the shift manager of your local Jersey Mike's does is not some kind of slam-dunk argument against said possibility.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to argue for/against here. Yes, people in the top 10% of income-earners collectively pay the majority of income taxes, dollar for dollar, and yes, we've been hearing variants of what Jonathan Chait called "The Stat" for years: the highest-earning 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all income taxes.[1] As Chait points out, "'The Stat' is literally true, but it is deeply misleading." For instance, FICA is not a progressive tax; it's a flat tax that stops being collected at around at around $150K of income. Somebody making $80K pays way, way, way more FICA as a percentage of their income as somebody making $800K does.
While I'm not suggesting we need a wealth tax, start burning down mansions, etc., etc., it's at least worth considering the possibility that America has a tax system which disproportionately favors the wealthy. That multimillionaires and billionaires pay, dollar for dollar, more taxes than the shift manager of your local Jersey Mike's does is not some kind of slam-dunk argument against said possibility.
[1]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1...