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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

CEOs in large corporations now make 350 times more than their average workers.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

They want us to represent them, not the corporate world.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

The problem is that corporations are making record-breaking profits and over 700 billionaires in American became nearly $2 trillion wealthier during the pandemic while engaging in obscene levels of price gouging.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Apr 4, 2022

16 years ago the United Nations General Assembly designated April 4 as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. Today, I am introducing a Senate resolution recognizing that designation and reaffirming United…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

Yesterday, at a time when gasoline in America is now at a near record high of $4.17 a gallon, guess what? We have seen yesterday ExxonMobil reported that its profit from pumping oil and gas alone in the first quarter will likely hit a…

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 4, 2022

The crisis on our southern border continues to worsen with each passing day. Just last month, Customs and Border Protection released their latest figures that showed immigrant encounters at the southern border have increased 61 percent…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

The rich get richer, and working families struggle. The wealthy buy political campaigns.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

They want Congress to address corporate greed and make sure that the wealthiest people in our country and the most profitable corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

the American people, based on the polling that I have seen, have had enough. They are outraged at the unprecedented level of corporate greed that is taking place all around them.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

If we are serious about combating inflation and lowering prices, we must aggressively use the antitrust laws that are on the books and introduce new ones as necessary to break up behemoth corporations and increase competition.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

I am a proud co-sponsor of the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act, which would establish a per-barrel tax to capture the windfall profits of the largest oil companies and return that money to consumers in the form of a quarterly rebate.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

During World War II, our country, the people of our country, understood that it was unacceptable for companies to make obscene profits when young men and women were dying in Europe and in Asia.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

one of the great successes going through this pandemic was that so many Americans did not fall into poverty

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

A windfall profits tax is exactly what is needed right now when oil companies, for example, are showing, as they are, historical profits.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

the challenge that we are facing right now is whether we are going to live in a government--live with a government that works for all of us or is dominated by big money and trusts and works for the very few.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

Inflation is intimately connected to record corporate profits and widening inequality. Average working people in America are being shafted.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

We are seeing record-breaking profits, we are seeing record-breaking levels of stock buybacks, we are seeing high dividends.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 4, 2022

We have more income and wealth inequality than we have had, I think, in a hundred years.

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