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Bernie Sanders: “Right now we have about 50% of our senior citizens living on…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 15:30

I don't know if you're familiar with it. My campaign did a poll two weeks ago. We paid for a poll and the results were not really different than other polls. For example, Right now we have about 50% of our senior citizens living on 30,000 a year and a quarter of them living on 15,000. God knows how you live on $15,000. What most Americans, overwhelming majority of Americans, including majority of Republicans believe is we should lift the cap on taxable income so that the wealthy pay more into the Social Security trust fund. (15:30–15:39)

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Asserts that 50% of seniors live on $30,000 annually, and 25% on $15,000.

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