Last year alone, after receiving the largest tax break in history, fewer than 1,000 billionaires, that's what we have. One thousand billionaires became one and a half trillion dollars richer. Thousand people, trillion and a half dollars richer. Over the last six years, billionaires in America have more than doubled their wealth. And over the last 50 years, this trend has been going on for a while. According to the Rand Corporation, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. (06:10–06:18)
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Asserts American billionaires have doubled their wealth in six years.
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