This past year has shown that corporate profits are more important to your bank than offering just a little help to struggling families.
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
Wall Street built this system. They did not build it for everyone. They built it for themselves.
Stock buybacks used to be illegal market manipulation. Today they are routine.
The answer is your profits would have been $27.6 billion. I did the math for you.
The economy is not physics. It is not governed by scientific laws outside our control.
When companies lay people off, when they move jobs to low-wage countries, when they cut paychecks, when they bust unions...
$1.463 billion. That is nearly $1.5 billion that you collected from your customers.
I am introducing the Building Child Care for a Better Future Act this week with Chairman Wyden.
we could raise a large amount of revenue by reducing the tax gap and focusing that reduction on high-net-worth individuals and large corporations.





