The chart shows that the top 1%, which the 3 million people making over $615K/year, pay 45.7% of the income tax. For people with $1 million/year or higher of i

The chart shows that the top 1%, which the 3 million people making over $615K/year, pay 45.7% of the income tax. For people with $1 million/year or higher of income, most of the income is from sources other than salaries and wages. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/2000134-composition-of-income-reported-on-tax-returns-in-2012.pdf http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/2000134-compositi... . If all 3 million people decided to take a year off then the worst case would be a 20% drop in income tax or 10% drop in the US tax revenue. More than likely, some of the people under 99% would suddenly have new jobs, with a higher income. I find it hard to think of 3 million people as a small enough number to be in the unpredictable range for a ~1 year fluctuations. 300? Certainly. 30,000? Maybe. But the 1% is still the population of Iowa.