Last year alone, after receiving the largest tax break in history, fewer than 1,000 billionaires in America became $1.5 trillion richer. There aren't too many billionaires in this room, I gather. Over the past six years, billionaires in America have more than doubled their wealth. And listen to this. According to the RAND Corporation, not exactly a socialist operation. Over the last 50 years, there has been a $79 trillion redistribution of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. (06:45–06:49)
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Asserts that American billionaires have more than doubled their wealth in the past six years.
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