Bernie Sanders Asks if American Economy is 'Moral'
Every candidate in the 2016 presidential race talks about responding to income inequality and stagnant middle class wages. No one else talks about it like Bernie Sanders.
The self-described socialist senator from Vermont wants to reverse the "massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent." The 90 percent top income tax rates America had during the 1950s might not be too high, he said.
He wants big Wall Street banks broken up. He's willing to accept slower economic growth in return for what he'd consider a more equitable distribution of income.
"The issue we're dealing with is actually the struggle to rebuild American democracy," Sanders said in an interview at a Capitol Hill bistro. "Economically, over the last 40 years, we've seen a middle class in this country disappearing.
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