Bernie Sanders In Iowa: Soldiers Didn’t Die ‘So Billionaires Could Buy Elections’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said over the weekend that his top priority was overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision because he did not believe that U.S. armed forces had “fought and died for democracy so that billionaires can buy elections.”
In a speech at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa on Saturday, Sanders laid out what many in the audience hoped was an agenda for a 2016 presidential run, according to CNN.
“We need a political revolution in this country,” Sanders reportedly told the crowd. “Politics is terribly important, and what happens in Washington and state capitals is also enormously important.”
He pointed out that there was a lot of “moaning and groaning” from corporate America about high tax rates.
“In 1952, corporations contributed about 32 percent of all federal revenue,” the Vermont senator remarked. “Today they contribute less than 10 percent. One out of four large corporations pay zero in taxes.”
“And corporations and the wealthy are stashing huge amounts of money in the Cayman Islands and in other tax havens in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, let alone as our panelists talked about, running to Switzerland or elsewhere in terms of tax inversion — trying to combine with another company to avoid paying taxes.”
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