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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
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Bernie Sanders
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The clean energy revolution cannot be stopped by politicians in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. In 10 years:
💨📉Wind energy prices fell 70%
☀️📉Solar prices fell 90%
We will create millions of jobs and save Americans money as we move to a renewable energy economy.
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Bernie Sanders
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If the minimum wage had kept up with productivity growth since 1968, every worker would make at least $24 an hour.
Instead, half our workers earn less than $19 an hour today.
We need a strong trade union movement to reverse corporate America's 50-year war on the working class.
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Bernie Sanders
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We are not going to waste another 40 years testing trickle-down economics, which have devastated America's working class.
The time is long overdue for the rich to start paying their damn taxes. pic.twitter.com/tzbtzzSJLT
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Bernie Sanders
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Hours of paperwork. Insurance costs that dwarf their own salaries. Small business owners dealing with our dysfunctional system know that the solution is a Medicare for All, single-payer national health program. npr.org/sections/healt…
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Bernie Sanders
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Returning asylum-seekers to Mexico where there is no oversight or accommodation is wrong.
If we turn our backs on refugees, we will be destroying what this country is supposed to be about. vox.com/2020/1/30/2111…
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Bernie Sanders
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What do Amazon, Starbucks, Chevron, Netflix, GM, Duke Energy, Xcel Energy, Halliburton, Eli Lilly, JetBlue, U.S. Steel, FedEx, and Dow-DuPont have in common?
They all paid $0 in corporate taxes last year.
We need government of, by, and for the people—not huge corporations. twitter.com/iteptweets/sta…
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Bernie Sanders
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Of all the corrupt institutions in America, I haven’t figured out who's worse: Wall Street or the drug companies.
We must build a movement strong enough to put an end to their greed and control over our government.
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Bernie Sanders
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A Green New Deal to defeat humanity's common enemy, climate change, is far cheaper than the cost of doing nothing. twitter.com/ScienceAlert/s…
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Bernie Sanders
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Our job is not only to provide every American with health care, but substantially expand Medicare benefits. Medicare for All will:
👩🏽⚕️ Cover vision, hearing, and dental care for all
💊 Cap everyone's out-of-pocket drug costs at $200 a year
🏠 Support long-term care at home
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Bernie Sanders
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Tonight, more than 500,000 Americans will sleep in the streets.
This year, 80% of all new rentals will be luxury apartments.
That is immoral. We will make the top 1% pay their fair share of taxes and make housing a human right. The ultra-rich can no longer have it all.
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Bernie Sanders
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If Wall Street bankers are annoyed with their "underwhelming" bonuses right now, just wait until we pass my Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act. reuters.com/article/us-ban…
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Bernie Sanders
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Last week, the House passed the No War Against Iran Act that I introduced with @RepRoKhanna.
Senate Republicans now have a choice: Will they pass my bill and stand up for the Constitution? Or will they allow Trump to illegally lead us into a disastrous war in the Middle East? pic.twitter.com/OzEwjUOp6u
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Bernie Sanders
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We must finally put an end to the disastrous, so-called "War on Drugs."
This includes legalizing marijuana, releasing those imprisoned because of it, expunging their records, and investing in the communities devastated by this decades-long assault.
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Bernie Sanders
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Bad news for those who say our seniors' benefits are too "extravagant": We're expanding them.
My Social Security Expansion Act provides low-income seniors $1,300 more a year by making millionaires and billionaires pay their share of Social Security taxes. cnbc.com/2020/01/13/why…
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Bernie Sanders
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Just how rich are Wall Street speculators?
A tax of just a few pennies on their financial trading can fund tuition-free public college for all and erase all $1,700,239,090,564 in student debt.
This is how we make higher education a right in America.
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Bernie Sanders
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⬆️In 1965, public college tuition was $2,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000.
⬇️In 1968 the minimum wage was $10. Now it’s $7.25.
If we're not supposed to learn from other wealthy countries, we can sure as hell look at policies America had 50 years ago, when we were half as rich.
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Bernie Sanders
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The financial sector grew fivefold as a share of the economy since the 1970s.
The result? More greed, corruption, criminality, bloated CEO pay, financial crashes and taxpayer bailouts.
Maybe Wall Street should face some downsizing so that the working class can finally thrive.
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Bernie Sanders
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For the price of this single $13 billion warship—a total boondoggle—we could provide America's children universal school lunches for a full year.
This is why we must confront the military-industrial complex and end the profiteering off of weapons of war. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Bernie Sanders
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It’s time for us to join the rest of the world's rich countries and guarantee:
👷🏽♀️ Living wages
💪🏾 Strong unions
🏥 Universal health care
🏖 Paid vacation and family leave
👩🏽🎓 Tuition-free college
🧓🏻 Retirement security
Americans deserve to live with dignity too.
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Bernie Sanders
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A majority of our seniors get most of their income from Social Security—less than $1,500 a month, on average.
Washington lobbyists can spend that in one night on a fancy dinner!
Tell me why we can give billionaires tax breaks but can't afford to expand Social Security.
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