Tag: Bernie Sanders
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It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
Bernie Sanders
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Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Bernie Sanders
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It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.
Bernie Sanders
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Former Senator Al D’Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
Bernie Sanders
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America’s senior citizens lived in poverty.
Bernie Sanders
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Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.
Bernie Sanders
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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as ‘socialist.’ Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.
Bernie Sanders
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General Electric, NBC’s parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.
Bernie Sanders
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Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That’s right, $27.
Bernie Sanders
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Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
Bernie Sanders