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Dan Schwartz: “We have been a capitalist economy for 230 years and it's…”

Featuring: Dan Schwartz, Republican | Former Nevada State Treasurer

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Published | Video Starts at 13:33

And I think there's no question that there's an increasing gap between the ultra rich and the other 99%. Right. Which a lot of those candidates are exploiting. That's right. And all I can say is that We have been a capitalist economy for 230 years and it's worked pretty well. And the problem with socialism is it's never worked. Okay. Now you can have now Denmark and France and to an extent the uk and I'm not even talking about … (13:33–13:40)

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Asserts that the U.S. has been a successful capitalist economy for 230 years.

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