What's-Your-Share-of-the-Nation's-Tax-Bill: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Heres another artical stating some of the same things, lets you know wher you fit in, and has less of a bias tone to it. Also the chart at the bottom is pretty nice.
Single filing tax payers need to be extra weary when listening to politicians say who is going to be affected by their proposed tax changes, as they rarely drop filing statuses when siting numbers. If Obama says he only wants to raise taxes for the top quartile of all income earners, and then backs it up with just a number, for married filing jointly, of 131k, that sounds like Robin Hood talk to someone like my mom. She’s a single teacher in Fairfax Co. which makes it tough for her. But more importantly she’s a single filer with limited deductions and shell likely fall into the category of top quartile.