… paying their fair share of taxes, which is why I have introduced legis calling for a 5% annual tax on the wealth of billionaires. That's less than 1,000Americans. And Chris, If we do that [tax billionaires], we raise enough revenue to provide a $3,000 check for every man, woman and child in families under $150,000. We can putmake sure that everybody who is thrown off of health care by Trump gets reinstated. And we could do enormous things for the American people. (06:39–07:11)
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