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Bernie Sanders: “This legislation will provide over a trillion dollars in tax…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Warns Iowa City About Rise Of Oligarchy Power In The United States

Published | Video Starts at 28:35

It's a big bill that the Republicans right now are working on. And what that bill does is that at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, This legislation will provide over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the billionaire class and the entire 1%. It will make the very richest people in this country even richer. And where does it get that money? Well, it gets that money by cutting. Medicaid, housing, nutrition, education and the other. (28:35–28:47)

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Asserts that the reconciliation bill will give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy.

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