How To Define 'Tax Fairness'

Because of the earned income tax credit, most of America's poor pay little or nothing. What the Tax Policy Center calls working class pays 3 percent of all federal taxes. The middle class pays 11 percent. The upper middle class pays 19 percent, and the wealthy 67 percent. President Obama and the Democratic Party harp about tax fairness. Here's my fairness question to you: What standard of fairness dictates that the top 10 percent of income earners pay 71 percent of the federal income tax burden while 47 percent of Americans pay absolutely nothing?