We're living in a moment where the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, where one man, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households, where while 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, The billionaire class has seen its wealth increase by a trillion and a half dollars since Trump was elected. How's that? They doing pretty well. All right, so I think the point is that at a time of so much inequality, we've got to ask the wealthiest People to start paying their fair share of taxes. (05:25–05:33)
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Asserts that billionaires' wealth increased by $1.5 trillion since Trump's election.
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