The tax code asks families from top to bottom to pay something like 25 or 30 percent of their income to the government—except at the very top. The richest of the rich pay just a little more than 20 percent.
43,000 million-dollar-plus income earners so far have reaped over 80% of the stimulus windfall — coming in at an eye-popping average of $1.6 million each in 2020 alone. That’s 1,300 times what regular Americans are getting with their $1,200 checks going out under the CARES Act.