Analyst's note: "....This week’s chart reveals the top 10 percent of income earners paid 70 percent of all federal income taxes in 2008, while the bottom 50 percent paid only 3 percent. Remarkably, 49 percent of U.S. households paid no federal income tax at all."
[....] “According to the CBO, the top 1% of income earners pay 30 percent of their income in all federal taxes.” [....]