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Bernie Sanders: “Super PACs can spend hundreds of millions of dollars…”

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

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Published September 19, 2024 | Video Starts at 18:24

But it's not just Donald Trump, and it's not just the fossil fuel industry. It's money talks. Ordinary people have a vote. And Super PACs, billionaires put money into Super PACs. Super PACs can spend hundreds of millions of dollars electing, defeating the candidates that they want. And Democrats are basically living and embracing that system. This issue of campaign finance reform has really fallen to the bottom of the list. Not to my mind, it hasn't. (18:24–18:31)

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“We finally, after years of talk, took on the very powerful pharmaceutical industry beginning to lower prices.”
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“Biden led the effort to [rebuild] our crumbling infrastructure.”
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“Joe Biden and those of us in Congress put more money into transforming our energy system than any administration in history.”
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“We canceled student debt for over 5 million Americans.”
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“President Biden [was] the first president of the United States to ever walk on a picket line.”
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“I think he [President Biden] should be very proud of what he has accomplished.”
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“Three people in America own more wealth than the bottom half of American society.”
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“1% [of Americans] owns more wealth [than] the bottom 90%.”
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“CEOs make 350 times more money than workers.”
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“We have more income and wealth inequality in America today than we've ever had in the history of this country.”
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“We spend twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people of any other nation.”
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“We have massive income and wealth inequality in America.”
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“Some billionaires are literally paying an effective tax rate lower than a truck driver or a nurse.”
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“We have 650,000 people who are homeless.”
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“She was [for Medicare for all]. And she altered her position. She's not for that now.”
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“Wall street is buying up more and more housing in America.”
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“One out of four Americans who are getting cancer treatment end up going bankrupt or financially depleting their resources.”
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“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.”
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“We should lift the cap on taxable income so that the wealthy pay more into the Social Security trust fund.”
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“You can raise Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year and extend the solvency of Social Security for 75 years.”
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“We are paying, roughly speaking, twice as much, perhaps, for prescription drugs as other people.”
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“Big money has enormous influence over both political parties, period.”
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“The reason that we haven't raised the minimum wage above $7.25 an hour...is the power of money.”
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“We are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people.”
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“Billionaires who pay an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers.”
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“Citizens United is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions.”
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“Super PACs are funded by billionaires.”
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“Jamal Bowman, Missouri, Cori Bush, both of them were defeated by huge amounts of money coming in from a super PAC funded by apac.”
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“We have a $7.25 an hour minimum wage when 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck is abysmal.”
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“You gotta raise that minimum wage to a living wage, which I would say would be $17 an hour at least.”
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“Large corporations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars making it hard for workers to join unions.”
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“We need to pass what's called the PRO act, which is legislation that would, you know, severely penalize companies that use illegal…”
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“We lowered childhood poverty in America by 40% [through the American Rescue Plan].”
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“Trump is the most dangerous candidate, I think, in the history. History of this country.”
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“Hamas is a terrorist organization that invaded Israel and killed 1200 innocent people on October 7.”
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“There are 2.2 million people in Gaza. 30,000 are dead, most of whom are women, children and elderly people.”
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“Every University of 12 universities in Gaza have been bombed.”
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“That is a war crime. And I agree with the International Criminal Court. That said both Netanyahu and Sinwar, who was the leader of Hamas…”
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