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Crashdown77 said:
Interesting stuff, and I didn't know that the top 1% pay 25% of the taxes. Thanks for the answer, it's always nice when someone has a real answer for you that doesn't start with "Listen idiot. . ."

Anytime. And actually, I was way off. The top 1% pay 40% of all tax dollars.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

The top 5% pay 60% of our tax dollars.