What should the rate they pay matter? Personally I say we should all pay the same rate regardless of income, after all that is only fair and only under such a system will everyone have skin in the game. After all it is easy to "buy votes" with claiming to raise taxes when the bottom 47% pay no taxes at all. Democracies have historically become Oligarchies through divisive methods such as these...fortunately we are not a democracy but even in a Republic such as ours such can be used as tools for votes to corrode at our very foundation (and has happened quite a bit since the founding).
The top 1% pay 36% of the taxes, the top 5% pay 58% of the taxes, the top 10% pay 70% of the taxes, the top 25% pay 87% of the taxes, and the top 50% pay 97.7% of the taxes. You are falling victim to this class warfare tactic that is being deliberately used to get you to feel hostility towards your fellow Americans. When your elected leaders, charged with protecting All Americans are intentionally trying to turn you against other Americans you should readily take notice and rally against such activities.
This 99% you speak of is a fallacy and a tool constructed by the liberals/socialists/anarchists to try and covey strength and consensus by taking a segment of the population that is not the top 1% and presenting them as if they are some how in agreement with each other -- make no mistake they are not. I am against everything this so called 99% stands for and I am not in the 1% and have never been in the 1%. I consider these liberals/socialists/anarchists to be my enemies and enemies of the US. Their aims serve no other purpose but to bring down our nation or to gain personal advance as beggars without having to actually undergo the humiliation of begging (they want to victimize the industrious and portray the lazy and worthless as victims). I have far too much pride in myself and my abilities to every follow any such movement. If the lines are ever formed the 99% will see me on the other side in contention...they can recognize me by my large and proud stature, my simple and efficient attire, and my massive spiked club.