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More than 130 million Americans filed individual tax returns last year, and they collectively handed the government $1.038 trillion. It is a very small number of high-earners, though, who mostly pull the national wagon. Fully 53.3 percent of all taxes are paid by the top 5 percent of earners. The top 1 percent alone pay 32.2 percent of the total (up from 30.5 percent the year ...