Of course they do. In 2021 the top 10 percent earned 52.61 percent of all U.S. income, while the rest of us scraped by with the remaining 47.39 percent. The lofty 1 percent of earners garnered about half of that 52.61 percent, or 26.3 percent. The income disparity has only gotten worse since 2021.
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So of course the 1 percent pay the bulk of federal income taxes, what else would expect? They take over a quarter of all U.S. income?
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https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2024/
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Scroll down to the 2021 chart
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The following assertion is laughable.
"Democrat politicians and political media have convinced a large segment of the population that the wealthy don’t pay their fair share of taxes, which leaves the burden of funding the government to the working class. However, this notion couldn’t be further from reality."
The wealthy take 52.6 percent of the total U.S. income, so they should be taxed accordingly.
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The MAGA crowd harks back to the good old days when America was great. One thing that made America great in the "good old days" was appropriate taxation. From the Great Depression until the mid '80s, the top marginal tax bracket never fell below 70 percent. Let's make America great again through appropriate taxation.
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Don't believe me--check it out for yourself:
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates