Claim: "Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."
Fact-check: Barbara Boxer says 400 richest taxpayers saw incomes grow by 400%, tax rates fall by 40%
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-09-21T00:00:00