All statements involving Bernie Sanders
"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America."
"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."
"We now work the longest hours of any people around the world."
Under the compromise tax agreement, "99.7% of American families will not pay 1 nickel in an estate tax."
"Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS."
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
"We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth."
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