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We need to clean that up. dan: the flat tax would be a great idea but they are written into the law. he's not breaking the law number one and second, he said it's not accurate and give the opportunity to correct it. the bottom 50% of income earners only take 2.9% of the income tax so they are not paying the heaviest load, that's not true. it's actually the top 10% of taxpayers think 71% of the taxable so as not accurate, i don't know why people say that. it's not true, it's factually incorrect. is a chart showing from the tax foundation exactly what i just said. the top 1% paid 40% of attacks ...

Getting asked? it's infuriating. they never tell the truth about taxes ever. how much to the rich pay? even liberals don't seem to know. take a look at this. [inaudible] less than 5%. >> top 1% should pay 10% of america's income taxes? >> somewhere around 50%, they don't pay 5%. anybody can see that unfair. >> they already say 34%. >> if you deal with the quality of their lives -- [laughter] dan: one of my all-time favorite clips. they have no idea, pay your fair share. i have no idea how much that is and when they call you out, next question.

Getting asked? it's infuriating. they never tell the truth about taxes ever. how much to the rich pay? even liberals don't seem to know. take a look at this. [inaudible] less than 5%. >> top 1% should pay 10% of america's income taxes? >> somewhere around 50%, they don't pay 5%. anybody can see that unfair. >> they already say 34%. >> if you deal with the quality of their lives -- [laughter] dan: one of my all-time favorite clips. they have no idea, pay your fair share. i have no idea how much that is and when they call you out, next question.

>> we talk about percentages here, the top 1% pays according to latest numbers, 27.3%, 5% pay 40.6% of the taxes. the lowest when it comes to income, the lowest fifth are paying 2%. what is your take when it comes to demonizing capitalism and suggesting the rich aren't doing enough? >> you'd never know the numbers if you listen to president biden, the one he copter but you are right, amazingly is a lot of research done on capitalism and rates of poverty around the world have gone down because of it. we also lived through the cold war and saw socialist countries living in squalor while countrie...

About yesterday, think about it, $160 billion a year that is avoided and evaded by the top 1%. that's not a tax increase. that's actually making sure that those people are actually paying the taxes that they owe. we're going to focus on that in this legislation. >> so in addition to having to deal with manchin, and the democrats on this, you have to deal with the republican opposition as well. some former trump white house staffers have put together some kind of an advertising plan. they're going to spend $10 million in campaign against what you're after. and then you have house minority leade...