We can only do that if we do the wildly popular thing, which is taxing the enormously wealthy. Right. Dollars, half million up or 1 million and up per year of income, looking at wealth taxes and all that. That's going to be an uphill battle with some corporate Democrats who are funded by people making more than $1 million a year. So we have a lot of work to do, but ultimately it's worth it. We have to fight and we have to win. We have to raise the minimum wage. (14:27–14:35)
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