GOP Candidate Said Middle Class Doesn’t Pay ‘Fair Share’

“Mike Gibbons (R), a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don’t pay ‘any kind of a fair share’ of income taxes,” the AP reports.

Said Gibbons: “The top 20% of earners in the United States pay 82% of federal income tax — and, if you do the math, and 45% to 50% don’t pay any income tax, you can see the middle class is not really paying any kind of a fair share, depending on how you want to define it.”