the criticism of the President's infrastructure spending plan mostly over what is infrastructure and what isn't.
Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.
Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, it's a very long discussion. But the bottom line is that we need major, major reform in so many respects, in terms of police departments, all across this country.
It is just extraordinary, Chris. Imagine that after $1 trillion of tax breaks to large corporations, to lowering the corporate tax rate, after protecting the pharmaceutical industry from charging us by far the highest prices in the world…
What Republicans are doing, is trying to protect their interests by making it harder for people who might be voting against them to participate in the political process.
We have got to be extremely aggressive. I can’t think of any more issue, any issue more important than making sure that Americans can vote and participate in the political process.
I think the Republican Trump party now, at least certain leaders of the party, are trying to pretend that they are a party of the working class.
If elected president of the United States, we`re going to do everything that we can to rebuild the trade union movement in this country.
I know you will be shocked that after Mitch McConnell’s vehement, anti-corporate rant today, that he will vote vigorously and lead the opposition against asking large corporations, the wealthy, to start paying their fair share of taxes.
Senator Bernie Sanders who led a delegation down to Alabama today to meet the workers.
Some of my Republican colleagues have decided that what we should do is give massive, massive tax breaks to the very, very wealthiest families in America.
We are living in a country which has enormous needs, we have a very large deficit, and yet we have a Tax Code which enables the very, very richest people in America and the largest corporations to avoid paying their fair share of taxes…
I personally think that making the Tax Code and our spending programs more progressive is the right thing to do in light of trends in inequality, mobility, security, and opportunity.
We need a progressive tax system based on the ability to pay, not a regressive tax system that rewards the wealthy and the well-connected.
That is why I support a higher minimum wage because there is such a thing as 'not enough.'
We have as a Nation an extremely unfair Tax Code that allows billionaires to pay a lower effective tax rate than public school teachers, truck drivers, and nurses.
It is time for the wealthy to stop viewing taxes as a punishment instead of a responsibility.
If we collected just a third--one-third--of the unpaid taxes of the very rich, we could provide in this country and make public colleges and universities tuition free.
We can no longer tolerate a Tax Code that allows him, worth $95 billion, to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary.
We need to expand not cut Social Security so that 20 percent of our seniors are no longer forced to survive on an income of less than $13,500 a year.
We need to guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child as a human right, not a privilege.





