On his campaign website, in the Income Inequality section, Bernie Sanders describes how Wall Street and the billionaire class have rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country.

The White House publishes different [data tables](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/) related to collected taxes, and one of them shows the share paid by individuals and corporations as a percentage of GDP over time.

Plotting this data as a time series shows that the Vermont senator clearly has a point.