Bernie Sanders to titans of business: "Sorry, You're All Going To Have To Pay Your Fair Share"
Bernie Sanders - speaks with abandon to the visceral concerns of Democratic liberals about some titans of business and finance:
"These people are so greedy, they're so out of touch with reality," he said. "They think they own the world. ... I'm sorry to have to tell them, they live in the United States, they benefit from the United States, we have kids who are hungry in this country. We have people who are working two, three, four jobs, who can't send their kids to college.
"Sorry, you're all going to have to pay your fair share of taxes," he asserted. "If my memory is correct, when radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the highest marginal tax rate was something like 90 percent."
Sanders doesn't condemn Clinton for having earned vast sums delivering speeches since leaving the State Department. But he cautions that it could leave her insensitive to the concerns of working-class voters.
"When you hustle money like that, you don't sit in restaurants like this," he said. "You sit in restaurants where you're spending—I don't know what they spend—hundreds of dollars for dinner and so forth. That's the world that you're accustomed to, and that's the world view that you adopt. You're not worrying about a kid three blocks away from here whose mom can't afford to feed him."
"So yes, I think that can isolate you—that type of wealth has the potential to isolate you from the reality of the world."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102694355
= new reply since forum marked as read
