The zombie claim that the 2017 tax cut gave ‘83 percent’ to the top 1 percent

(We should note that Treasury estimates for 2021, released this month, also indicate that the percentage of taxes of the top 0.1 percent further decreased, compared with 2017, but the rest of the top 1 percent continued to experience an increase. The taxes paid by the top 1 percent increased more than $50 billion, compared with 2017, with much of it borne by the taxpayers in the 99th percentile to 99.9th percentile. That group’s share of income taxes increased almost 1 percent since 2017, while the share paid by the top 0.1 fell 2.5 percent.)

Source: WP