The problem in America right now with billionaires is that they don’t pay taxes the way everybody else does.

Democrats in both chambers face growing pressure, including a key election next week to finally wrap it up.

I'm feeling optimistic. I think we've made really good progress.

I have proposed a 2 cent wealth tax. This is 2 cents on assets above $50 million. It is time for a wealth tax in America.

Democrats understand that what the American people have known for a long time, and that is that the tax system is rigged, and letting these giant profitable companies get away with paying nothing has to come to an end.

Two years ago, I really thought we needed to break up Facebook. Today, I really, really, really think we need to break up Facebook.

Everything at this point including criminal charges is on the table.

Right now, billionaire individuals and billionaire, profitable corporations are paying either little or nothing in taxes, and that is wrong.

We need to break up Facebook to save our democracy.

We can also help make the system a little fairer.

The proposal is to fix the Amazon problem. Remember how Amazon declared $10 billion in profits, publicly told shareholders that, and then turned around and told the I.R.S., but not you, paid zero in taxes.

As Democrats it is important for us not only to have a package of the things we want to get done like universal child care, and universal preschool, and expanded health care, and fighting back against climate change, but also that we pay…

I think we've got a very good chance on that. I talked about it today with all of my colleagues, but I've been doing this for a long time now.

It is time to break up Facebook.

The reason we need to break up Facebook is that it`s critically important that there not be one worldwide company that basically has all of the information from everyone.

A wealth tax is a whole lot fairer than what we have right now.

I feel a lot of hope that we're really going to get good things done for the American people. I'm optimistic about that.

we need to find out what kind they were.