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Bernie Sanders: “Large corporations like Tesla and SpaceX [are] making…”

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

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FULL SPEECH: Bernie Sanders Holds 'Billionaire Tax Now' Event In Los Angeles, California

Published | Video Starts at 22:08

They are sick and tired of billionaires paying a lower tax rate than the average American worker. They are sick and tired of Large corporations like Tesla and SpaceX [are] making billions of dollars in profit a year and paying nothing, zero, zilch in federal income taxes. They are sick and tired of people like Sergey Brin, the co founder of Google, who is spending $20 million to defeat this tax on billionaires. Mr. Brin, you are worth $245 billion. (22:08–22:26)

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Asserts that large corporations such as Tesla and SpaceX pay no federal income taxes despite high profits.

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