Claim: "If you're a … wealthy CEO or a … hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are … lower than they've been since the 1950s."
Fact-check: Barack Obama says tax rates are lowest since 1950s for CEOs, hedge fund managers
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-06-29T00:00:00