claim: "our tax rates are lower now than they were under ronald reagan. they're much lower than they were under dwight eisenhower."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: nov 24, 2015 ... and these are marginal rates, so they only paid that on any earnings above that  ... regardless, one should ask how much the rich were actually paying. ... that  deduction is now gone for everyone but “active” real estate ...... only around 30- 40 percent under the lower tax rate than under the higher tax rate.
evidence_2: oct 17, 2011 ... here's a short effort to rebut the seven biggest whoppers now being told by ...  ronald reagan and george w. bush both sliced taxes on the rich and ... under  dwight eisenhower it was 91 percent. ... the top taxes on the very rich were far  higher than they've been since. .... how much radiation is too much?
evidence_3: jul 3, 2012 ... britons, for example, paid 5.4 times as much in taxes as taxpayers in ... " assessors were appointed to rate inhabitants on their estates and their faculties,  ... by some measures, federal taxes are lower today than they were in the ...  ronald reagan's 28 percent but lower than dwight eisenhower's 90 percent.
evidence_4: in a given year, do you know how much they're paying in taxes to the us  government in a ... that billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or  truck drivers. ... o'malley: may i point out that under ronald reagan's first term,  the highest ... were taxed at similar rates to normal income, since the 1970's the  tax rates ...
evidence_5: aug 13, 2015 ... the wealthy have managed to take over politics, and they have ... they sought to  wring as much profit out of the system for themselves at the ... were required to  pay higher tax rates than the middle and lower ... under the two republican terms  of president dwight eisenhower ... we're not talking about 5%.