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Bernie Sanders: “The top 1/10 of 1% owns almost as much wealth as the bottom…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Speaks at the DNC Summer Meeting

Published | Video Starts at 08:31

We need a movement, a movement which tells corporate America and the wealthiest people in this country that they will start paying their fair share of taxes. That we will end the obscenity of living in a country where The top 1/10 of 1% owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. That is not the kind of economy we want. We need a movement which tells Wall street that when a bank is too big to fail, that bank is too big to exist and we're going to break them up. (08:31–08:41)

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Asserts that wealth inequality is extreme, with the top 0.1% owning nearly as much as the bottom 90%.

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