I may not be solving the problem you wanted me to solve, but I am solving the one I was interested in. I was interested in the relative incomes of the 10 men.
Quoting your source, to be in the top 1% of income earning Americans, you have to make
$313,469. A high sum, but certainly not astronomical. (Hell, to be in the top 25% you have to make $55,225 - ie: about what a programmer makes).
By comparison, one CEO last year made $25 million. (And no, that wasn't Kenneth Lay). So that top 1% has a LOT of range to it.
Now, there's been a lot of talk in certain sectors of making the lower classes "pay their fair share", but like bank robbing, to pay for taxes, you have to go where the money is.
In our example, we've got the #1 man making (at most) $13,850. We've got the #10 man making $1.52 trillion dollars. And we equilant $1.52 trillion to $100. What's the #1 man making in the 100 dollar scale? (1,520,000,000,000 * x) = (100) (13,850)
x = 13,850 / (1,520,000,000,000 / 100)
x = 0.000000... (it blows out my calculator).
Basically, the guy doesn't have any money.
Trying to bleed him of money isn't going to do anyone any good.
(BTW: for the record, I have never agreed with the concept of using taxes as a means of redistribution of wealth, and I support the idea of flat taxes with no deductions.)