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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
do you think it makes more sense to give tax breaks to billionaires or to make sure that our young people can afford to go to college?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders questions priorities between tax breaks for the wealthy and education funding.

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