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On the recordMarch 16, 2021
Repealing the estate tax would only benefit the top one-tenth of 1 percent who inherit over $11.7 million.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders critiques the estate tax repeal benefiting the ultra-wealthy.

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