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Bernie Sanders: “You're living in a society today where we have more income…”

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

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Sen. Bernie Sanders | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #635

Published | Video Starts at 17:34

Yeah. All right. And so the simple question that we have to ask ourselves is, how do we feel? And, you know, again, you can disagree with me. You're living in a society today where we have more income and wealth inequality than we've ever had in the history of this country. All right, you got the top 1% doing phenomenally well, owning more wealth than the bottom 93%. You got one man, Mr. Musk, one man owning more wealth than the bottom 52% of American households. (17:34–17:42)

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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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