Claim: "When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
Fact-check: Michele Bachmann says top income tax rate rose from 7 percent in 1913 to 70 percent in 1980
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-10-19T00:00:00