Spot the logic problem with this "devastating" Republican spin [View all]

[Johonny]

In a second report, the CBO said that in both 2008 and 2009, the highest-earning 20 percent of taxpayers paid 94 percent of the total income tax burden – up from 86 percent in 2007, and 81 percent before the 2001 tax cuts. In other words, higher-income Americans have been paying a bigger and bigger part of the total tax burden under the so-called “Bush tax cuts.”


http://portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=5e90efa5-355b-4cd2-8908-42c510de959f

I wonder why higher income people are paying more in more of the income tax. It's almost like they are getting more and more of the income hmm...