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Bernie Sanders: “Today you have the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:31

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. Today you have the top 1% owning more wealth than the bottom 93%. How's that? Today you got one man, Mr. Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households. Frankly, that is insane. (05:31–05:41)

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