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Bernie Sanders: “Massive tax breaks for the rich, threw 15 million people off…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 00:48

I suspect he'd born half the buildings in America named after him. He lies every single day. He is at war with the working families of our country. Massive tax breaks for the rich, threw 15 million people off the health care that they had. And he has gotten us into this terrible, terrible war in Iran, which is, by the way, illegal and unconstitutional. That's the bad news, though. Here is the good news. (00:48–00:55)

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Asserts that tax breaks for the rich resulted in 15 million people losing their healthcare.

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