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Bernie Sanders: “A nurse, where a truck driver may pay an effective tax rate…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani

Published | Video Starts at 07:06

Can you share a little bit more about what motivated you to pick that and how you see that as a progressive priority? You got a tax system where A nurse, where a truck driver may pay an effective tax rate higher than a billionaire. that's absurd. That's got to be changed. So we led the effort in breaking our dependence on the property tax because it is a regressive tax. (07:06–07:12)

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Asserts that some workers pay a higher effective tax rate than billionaires.

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