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Bernie Sanders: “Today you have more concentration of ownership in America…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 54:03

We are a society. People go out, they start their own small businesses. Free enterprise is great. Everybody competes against each other. That ain't the case. Today you have more concentration of ownership in America than we have ever had in the history of this country. In sector after sector, whether it is agriculture, transportation, media, financial services, what you have is a small number of extraordinarily large corporations who charge us outrageous prices for the products that we have to buy. (54:03–54:11)

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Asserts that the concentration of ownership in the U.S. economy is at an all-time high.

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