Make the wealthiest families and largest corporations pay their fair share by taxing extreme wealth to reverse income and wealth inequality.
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Derived from a tracked promise: “Make the wealthiest families and largest corporations pay their fair share by taxing extreme wealth to reverse income and wealth inequality.”
Sources
- Office of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (sanders.senate.gov)https://www.sanders.senate.gov/issues/ ↗
“a tax system that requires the wealthiest families and largest corporations in this country to pay their fair share”
“the unprecedented level of income and wealth inequality”
- Office of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (sanders.senate.gov)https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-and-khanna-introduce-legislation-to-tax-billionaire-wealth-and-invest-in-working-families/ ↗
“today introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, legislation that would establish a 5% annual wealth tax on the 938 billionaires in America”
- Office of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (sanders.senate.gov)https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-scott-174-colleagues-introduce-bill-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-17-by-2030-benefitting-nearly-22-million-americans/ ↗
“The $7.25 an hour minimum wage is a starvation wage. It must be raised to a living wage - at least $17 an hour.”