typical repub to say that a billionare only paying 17% is fair and someone working at mcdonalds making $10000 dollars a year needs to pay !0%--the facts are that you are right that 50% of people dont pay directly into the irs but they do pay taxes--property taxes, state taxes,gas taxes,food taxes,city taxes, taxes on their pay checks--the vast majority of these 50% of folks live below the poverty level and you want them to pay more in taxes than warren who pays 17% unbelivable--geo your exactly right there are a percentage of folks who sit on their butts not working and milk the system and dont contribute one thing to our society accept being a parasite however its not right to punish the entire 50% for a few freeloaders--when those 50% do get their "tax payday" as you call it us business folks love it because the poor and middle class actually pump this money back into our businesses which benifit us all--thats called trickle up economics which actually works--when the wealthy keep their tax dollars it trickles nowhere except their bank accounts