This is staggering. #WealthTax
Bernie Sanders
 @SenSanders
23 May 2021
Total student debt of 43 million Americans: $1.8 trillion Total wealth of 719 billionaires in America: $4.56 trillion Our job: Cancel student debt, make public colleges and universities tuition free and have the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

May 23, 2021 · 11:57 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Wake up!!!! Free college has never worked outside of, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Greece, France, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Malaysia, Morocco, Egypt and Kenya. It's a pipe dream. ;)
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Kind of like free health care.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
How many of those 719 billionaires had student debt, which they paid off after graduation and before they earned their billions?
Replying to @marwilliamson
Since the term 'wealth' has dual meaning (you helped me with its spiritual vibe around abundance, surrender & power-with others)... ...maybe we can adopt @SenWarren's '2 cent' gut-language (vs the head-words, '2 percent'), and call it #TheGazillionaireTax How ya feeling MW?🇺🇸🙏🏾
Replying to @marwilliamson
That doesn't sound like Socialism to me! ... that sounds like Common Sense!
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That would be immoral
Replying to @marwilliamson
Valuation isn't wealth. That's probably going to become clear in very dramatic fashion in the not to distant future. Still some serious redistribution is sorely needed. We need to undo the effects of Reaganomics and the Bush years.
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What’s the correlation? 🙃
Replying to @marwilliamson
Billionaires won't be paying for any of this, government will take the money from the working class like it always does. I work heavy construction and risk my health every day, why should I pay to educate my bosses?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.