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C-SPAN - Dec. 14, 2010: Sen. Sanders speaks on the Senate floor today in response to Senate reaching cloture on the tax-breaks compromise bill. He refers to Bush-era rates on capital rates and dividends.
SANDERS: "I want to very, very briefly - I spoke on this issue at some length the other day, I'll be a little bit briefer this afternoon - but I think it is important to explain why I think, and a number of us think, and many Americans think, this is a bad agreement and that, in fact, we can do a lot better."
It is
unconscionable to me that we are in the process of providing huge tax-breaks to the wealthiest people in this country, to drive up the natioinal debt, which our kids and grandchildren will have to pay off. I think that that is absolutely wrong.
Mr. President, during the Bush Presidency alone, the wealthiest 400 Americans saw their income more than double, while their income tax rates dropped almost in half - from 1992 to 2007..."
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