Bernie Sanders: “Large profitable corporations now make 350 times what the…”

“Can you imagine that one guy owning more wealth of about a half of American households? CEOs. Large profitable corporations now make 350 times what the average worker makes. 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.” (05:49–05:57)

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