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Bernie Sanders: “Elon Musk would have owed $42 billion in taxes.”

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

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Published March 29, 2026 | Video Starts at 33:36

That's right. I mean that's easy. You try to survive at $209 billion. Price of Florida you couldn't eat. Mr. Bezos also Elon Musk would have owed $42 billion in taxes. leaving him with a mere 207 billion to buy a couple of other mansions or jet planes or whatever he does with his money. What's the point? (33:36–33:42)

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Asserts that Elon Musk would have owed $42 billion in taxes under proposed legislation.

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“The average American worker is making about $20 a week less today than he or she did 53 years ago after adjusting for inflation.”
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“Over the last 50 years, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.”
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“Over a half a million Americans go bankrupt each year because of medically related debt.”
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“In America right now, billionaires pay a lower effective tax rate than the average worker.”
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“A few years ago, it was estimated that Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, paid an effective tax rate of less than 3.3%.”
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“I was in St. Paul, Minneapolis area, 150,000 people.”
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“The work that you did to elect Iran Ismail will not only impact this city, it will not only impact this country. It is reverberating all…”
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“Despite all of the money and all of the power of the oligarchs, people knocking on doors, ordinary people, can take them on and defeat them.”
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“Oligarchs like Musk and Bezos pushing at AI and robotics, which will be disastrous for the working class of this country.”
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“Never before in American history have so few people held so much wealth and so much power.”
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“Never before in American history have we seen such concentration of ownership.”
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“Elon Musk could spend $290 million to elect Trump as president.”
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“In these midterms, these oligarchs are going to spend many, many hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars in their super…”
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“Mr. Bezos also would have owed about 11 billion in taxes.”
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“These companies are worth $2.7 trillion.”
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“Paying their fair share of taxes. That is, that is true in California, where our union brothers and sisters are working on a tax on…”
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“And that is what the Mayor of New York is fighting for, Along with people all over this country. In New York State and here in New York…”
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“So let us be clear. Under the mayor's proposal, 99.3% of people in New York City would not pay a nickel more in taxes.”
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“Is what the mayor is proposing popular? You're damn right. The widely respected pollsters at Siena a few weeks ago, just a few weeks ago…”
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“Enough money to end homelessness in America.”
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“Enough money...to end the housing crisis by building 7 million units of low income and affordable housing.”
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“Provide universal child care...throughout America.”
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“No educator in America makes less than 50,000 a year.”
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“Our legislation would guarantee that seniors and people with disabilities receive the home health care they need through Medicaid.”
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“15 million Americans offer their health care in order to provide a trillion dollar tax break for the 1%.”
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“This is a country that belongs to the working families of America and not just a handful of billionaires.”
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