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Bernie Sanders: “It is the great moral issue. It is the great economic issue. It is the great political issue. We should not be living in…”

On the recordOctober 12, 2015
It is the great moral issue. It is the great economic issue. It is the great political issue. We should not be living in a country, Chris, where the top one tenth of one percent owns as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That is not just right.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Bernie Sanders emphasizes the importance of addressing income and wealth inequality as a central political issue.

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