Claim: The "mega-rich" pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class "fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot."
Fact-check: Warren Buffett says the super-rich pay lower tax rates than others
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Angie Drobnic Holan
Date published: 2011-08-18T00:00:00