Economy

I rode Amtrak for more than 30 years as a senator, and I know how important it is to our economy and way of life.

I was raised in a middle-class family, and I understand the struggles that so many Americans face.

Cheating, cutting corners and undermining workers isn't going to rebuild America.

This is actually an economy that is hurting small businesses and not allowing them to compete.

I think we have a serious problem in our country with corporate consolidation.

I am going to submit several charts for the record about how much has been invested in our country in loans to small businesses.

I was informed that more than half of all of the mortgages issued last year came from nonbanks.

However, we must also ensure that regulations placed on these companies are not so stringent that they may halt production altogether.

I believe that this is a $62 billion industry in America right now, and they cannot just put a disclaimer...

Corporate greed is a type of cancer in our democracy right now, and it is true.

We took banks that were too big to fail and we made them bigger.

I am for free trade, but it has to be fair, and we have to level the playing field.

CBO says, 'As a percentage of GDP, spending on mandatory programs is going higher. But spending on discretionary programs, as a percentage of GDP, is going lower.'

So really, we are left just with one option. That is just raise income taxes on everybody to the point where we run out of other people's money to pay for things that we can't afford any more.

These are real numbers that you can't dispute.

Let me tell you a number that we can go with: 350,000 new manufacturing jobs, growth in the economy.

The Trump tax cuts increased the deficit. Clearly, they didn't pay for themselves.

I actually asked the CBO director about the tax cuts, and very clearly he said that they did not pay for themselves, that they did increase the deficit.