Ooh, speaking of tax burden, I keep hearing about the huge tax burden on the lower class on this board....
Stick this in your pipe and smoke it:
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-soi/01in01ts.xls
Bottom line:
In 2001, the top 50% of wage earners paid over 96% of income tax
That means the bottom HALF of us are paying less than 4% of the total tax load.
The top 1% of earners paid over 33%.