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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

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

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