Interesting article at CBSnews.com which looks at a common election issue pretty much throughout the world - "Do the rich pay their fair share?"
. . . . the share of total income taxes paid by the top 2 percent of taxpayers — those targeted by Kerry and Edwards — was 41.3 percent in 2001, according to the Internal Revenue Service, though their share of total income was 22.4 percent.
If I'm not mistaken, those numbers are fairly similar in Canada.
The issue is discussed at length in this article.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/02/...ain633465.shtml
Cowperson