Claim: "They're paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years."
Fact-check: Congressman Steve Rothman claims the wealthiest Americans pay a lower tax rate "than they have in the last 80 years"
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Bill Wichert
Date published: 2012-03-11T00:00:00