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Bernie Sanders

Nasty Jack

(350 posts) Sun Jan 3, 2016, 07:15 PM Jan 2016

Bernie Sanders Sayings

Carter and Reagan substantially raised the regressive Social Security tax for working Americans. From 1970 to 1990, the Social Security tax was raised nine times--an increase of 31%.

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Don't forget this one LiberalArkie Jan 2016 #1

LiberalArkie

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1. Don't forget this one

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Sun Jan 3, 2016, 07:24 PM

Jan 2016

“They told white workers who were earning pennies an hour, ‘Hey, you think you’re in trouble, but you’re better off than the blacks,'” he said. “And they told straight people, ‘You’re better off than those gay people.’ And they pitted men against women. It’s always playing one group against another. That’s how the rich got richer while everybody else was fighting each other. Our job is to build a nation in which we all stand together.”

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