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Bernie Sanders: “They must not vote to give huge tax breaks to billionaires…”

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

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Bernie Sanders' Speech on Fighting Oligarchy and Authoritarianism

Published | Video Starts at 11:28

And we're going to make sure that all of the people in those districts that were won by Republicans with small margins, they know loudly and clearly they're going to hear from their constituents that They must not vote to give huge tax breaks to billionaires, but by cutting Medicaid and other programs that working families desperately need. So, yes, let me be very honest with you. The oligarchs are enormously powerful. No ifs, buts, and maybes. They have endless amounts of money. They control our economy. (11:28–11:40)

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Asserts that there is opposition to voting for tax breaks for billionaires at the expense of Medicaid and other programs.

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