Claim: "A construction worker who's making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn't be paying higher tax rates than the guy who's making $50 million a year. And that's how it's working right now."
Fact-check: Barack Obama says construction workers pay higher tax rate than someone earning $50 million a year
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-09-27T00:00:00