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Bernie Sanders: “The bottom line is that when you have 100 percent of the income gains in this country going to the top 1 percent, that's…”

On the recordJune 21, 2012
The bottom line is that when you have 100 percent of the income gains in this country going to the top 1 percent, that's a problem.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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