'Throw Them Out!': Bernie Sanders Decries Politicians Who Vote For Tax Cuts For Billionaires

At a May Day rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) decried politicians supporting tax cuts for the wealthy.

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00:00and let me tell you what is else that is going on in our country today today in

00:13the richest country in the history of the world 60% of our people are living

00:21paycheck to paycheck I grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck

00:31many of you are living paycheck to paycheck millions of people should not

00:37and will not live paycheck to paycheck in the richest country in the history of

00:43the world today in America one man Elon Musk owns more wealth than the bottom 52%

00:58of American households today in America working-class people live seven years

01:11shorter lives than the rich today in America the top 1% now owns more wealth

01:24than the bottom 93% and CEOs make three hundred and fifty times more than the

01:37average worker and here is something that we don't talk about enough and it

01:45tells us why the American people are furious today the average worker in

01:52America despite a huge explosion in technology and worker productivity that

02:01average worker is earning less money per week in inflation accounted for dollars

02:09that he or she did 52 years ago so it's not hard to understand what's happened over

02:22the last 50 years the very richest people in this country have become much richer

02:29while eight hundred thousand people today sleep out on the street and the

02:35average worker struggles so let me tell you something I have gone all over this

02:44country as some of you may know

02:48and what I am proud to tell you is the American people by the millions are saying no

03:00to oligarchy no to Trump's authoritarianism no to Trump's kleptocracy and no to tax breaks for

03:16billionaires and I'm here in Pennsylvania to tell any member of the

03:24Pennsylvania delegation that if they vote for tax breaks for billionaires and

03:30cut Medicaid nutrition and education we are going to throw them out of their jobs

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