This is a good read with some usefull Charts in it.
Take not of the chart involving percent of taxes actually paid with lines for the 90% 10 % and 1%
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/27254.html
Also note where and when this was presented.
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Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
May 3, 2011
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Also I found this quote of use in conjunction with the table previously noted from the mid 2000's
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Indeed, the OECD finds that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system of any industrialized country. What that means is that the top 10 percent of U.S. taxpayers pay a larger share of the income tax burden than do the wealthiest decile in any other industrialized country, including traditionally "high-tax" countries such as France, Italy, and Sweden.[13]
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