Chris Matthews to Bernie Sanders: ‘What Can Be Done About Exponential Wealth?’

Chris Matthews to Bernie Sanders: "What Can Be Done About Exponential Wealth?" (RealClearPolitics)

CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: What can be done in America about exponential wealth? I don't mean people where the CEO makes too much money, that's a problem in itself, but when you see people making in the billions. I've never seen these numbers, you've never seen them. billions. $20 billion, $30 billion, Buffet money and other people's money, I never heard of money like that in the world.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: You have never heard of this. You've never heard of this because it's never happened before. Listen to this: According to Forbes magazine, in the last two years, the wealthiest 14 people in this country have seen their wealth increase by $157 billion. 

That's more wealth than the bottom 130 million people have in their entirety. It is obscene. It is immoral. It's grotesque. 

How do you deal with it? You know what? You have real tax reforms that says to the billionaires, that says to the largest corporations in America, guess what? You are part of the United States of America. You can't avoid your taxes anymore. You have to start paying your fair share. Do that by raising the minimum wage and rebuilding the middle class, by a massive jobs program rebuilding our infrastructure.