… for health care, pay for housing, pay for everything while they are struggling, the billionaire class, the people on top, have never, ever had it so good. They understand that We have more income and wealth inequality today than at any time in the history of the United States. You remember the Gilded Age. Rockefeller, J.P. morgan, Jay Gould, all those trillionaires. What you got now is more inequality than existed during those days at the end of the 19th century. (02:30–02:38)
CLAIM
Asserts that current income and wealth inequality in the U.S. is at its highest in history.
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