Bernie Sanders: “Fewer than 1,000 billionaires in America became a trillion…”

“And the gap between the very, very rich and everyone else is growing wider. Last year alone, after receiving the largest tax breaks in history, Fewer than 1,000 billionaires in America became a trillion and a half dollars richer. How's that doing? Pretty good. Ends over the last 50 years. And this is important to know because this trend didn't start yesterday.” (06:11–06:20)

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