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Bernie Sanders: “Hedge fund managers get a tax benefit that the witnesses have already condemned through the carried interest exception…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
Hedge fund managers get a tax benefit that the witnesses have already condemned through the carried interest exception, and as a result, in the recent years they have had tax rates that are lower than the tax rates for Rhode Islanders who were hospital orderlies, who were brick masons, and who were truck drivers.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders highlights tax disparities favoring hedge fund managers over average workers.

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