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Bernie Sanders: “Today we have more income and wealth inequality than we have…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:07

… capita on healthcare as the people of any other country, all of whom have universal health care. We talking about that very much. Are we talking about the fact that Today we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of the United States of America. We all studied the Gilded Age, remember that? Rockefeller and Carnegie and Mellon and JP Morgan and all those guys, much worse today than it was then. (05:07–05:16)

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Asserts that current income and wealth inequality in the U.S. is at its highest in history.

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