Sanders: The Level of Income and Wealth Inequality that We Have Now Is Unsustainable

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SANDERS: "We’ll see. Secretary Granholm made the important point is that what we are proposing, the president is proposing is bipartisan. Millions and millions of Republicans, independents and Democrats understand the crises that they face, that we face as a nation and want to go forward. Unfortunately, Republicans in the Congress are moving far to the right but the American people want to see done, they are ignoring what people in their own party want to be done. Let me tell you something, if you are a Republican mayor in this country, you understand that you need significant help to infrastructure. If you are a Republican if an agricultural area, you understand what climate change is doing to your ability to produce the crops that you need and furthermore, I think there is in this country, Jake, an understanding that the level of income and wealth and equality that we have now is unsustainable as a whole. We can’t continue to have two people owning more of the wealth than the other people, major corporation after major corporation not paying a nickel in federal income tax. People say isn’t this an expensive proposal? It is. The time is overdue to demand the largest people and the largest corporations start paying their fair share of tax sfwls."