Something to chew on.

[bluestate10]

http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/111668/where-do-you-rank-as-a-taxpayer?mod=taxes-filing

[baldguy]

1. And keep in mind that it doesn't count earnings from capital gains.

If you make money trading stocks, that's not "income".

[The Magistrate]

2. What is To Be Swallowed After Chewing, Sir?

Income taxes have always been intended for the upper starta of earners: at its commencement in the modern era, little more than one in twenty persons made enough to be liable to the tax. In Mr. Smith's view, taxing the 'income' of wage-earners does not and cannot actually take place; he reasons anything they pay is simply advanced them by their employer, who, they did not have to pay the government some amount, would simply pay them that amount less.