Bernie Sanders: “CEOs making 350 times what the average employee earns.”

“You know, it's always, if you're a worker, you always know the guy on top makes more money than the worker does. Nothing new about that. But right now, in an unprecedented way, you have CEOs making 350 times what the average employee earns. And the gap between the very, very rich and everybody else is growing wider. Last year alone, after receiving the largest tax break in history from Mr. Trump, 938 billionaires became $1.5 trillion richer.” (07:04–07:13)

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