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Bernie Sanders: “We have proposed a wealth tax, the 5% tax on the wealth of…”

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

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Part two, what impact would it have in the Billionaire's life. All right, I would urge everybody to go to our social media and take a look at this. We have proposed a wealth tax, the 5% tax on the wealth of [about] a thousand billionaires in America. Thousand people in a nation of 340 million people. What it would mean is we would start off in the first year in these difficult times, making sure that every … (22:11–22:19)

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