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Bernie Sanders: “I proposed the surtax on people whose families had at least a million dollars in income, because they are the people who…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
I proposed the surtax on people whose families had at least a million dollars in income, because they are the people who benefited from Bush's economic policies in general.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders advocates for a surtax on the wealthy to address economic inequality.

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