Bernie Sanders calls out Bezos, Musk, Bloomberg, and Buffett in billionaire tax push: 'The richest people in America

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have never ever had it so good’

As wealth taxes gain momentum from Sacramento to Washington State, Sen. Bernie Sanders says 938 people stand between most working Americans and a $3,000 check.

In a scathing op-ed published Wednesday in the Guardian, the Vermont senator named every name and put every number on the table. “The richest people in America have never ever had it so good,” he wrote, while mentioning that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 85 million are uninsured or underinsured.

“We have a tax code that is totally rigged—written by representatives of the wealthy to benefit the wealthy,” he wrote in the op-ed, while also referencing estimates from the Rand Corporation that found nearly $80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% over the past 50 years.

Sanders is making headlines for once again calling for billionaires to pay up. Last month, he and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act that would put a 5% tax on the estimated 938 billionaires in the country and raise an expected $4.4 trillion over a decade. A portion of the first year’s revenue will be redistributed in the form of $3,000 checks to anyone making less than $150,000 a year.

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