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