Bernie Sanders, his voice scratchy and hoarse, tries relentlessly to drum common-sense into his Republican colleagues as the “need” for continuing and even expanding tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires continues to preoccupy them.

“Today, the top one tenth of 1% earns about 12 cents of every dollar.”

“The U.S. now has the most unequal distribution of income of any country on earth.”

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