Corporations Will Pay A Fair Share | Bernie Sanders

For too long, many corporations in this country have been allowed to pay nothing in federal income taxes. I'm going to change that. They WILL pay their fair share.

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Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years before defeating an incumbent Republican to be the sole congressperson for the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents and grew up in a small, rent-controlled apartment. His father came to the United States from Poland at the age of 17 without much money or a formal education. While attending the University of Chicago, a 20-year-old Sanders led students in a multi-week sit-in to oppose segregation in off-campus housing owned by the university as a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) officer. In August of 1963, Sanders took an overnight bus as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech firsthand at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

After graduation, Bernie moved to Vermont where he worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington as an Independent by a mere 10 votes, shocking the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor. In 1983, Bernie was re-elected by a 21 point margin with a record amount of voter turnout. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care, women’s rights, youth programs and the arts. In 1990, Sanders was elected to the House of Representatives as the first Independent in 40 years and joined the Democratic caucus. He was re-elected for eight terms, during which he voted against the deregulation of Wall Street, the Patriot Act, and the invasion of Iraq.

In 2006, Sanders defeated the richest man in Vermont to win a seat in the U.S. Senate as an Independent. Known as a “practical and successful legislator,” Sanders served as chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs where he authored and passed the most significant veteran health care reform bill in recent history. While in the Senate, Sanders has fought tirelessly for working class Americans against the influence of big money in politics. In 2010, he gave an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster-like speech on the Senate floor in opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy. In 2015, the Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus’ ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.

Known for his consistency on the issues, Senator Sanders has supported the working class, women, communities of color, and the LGBT community throughout his career. He is an advocate for the environment, unions, and immigrants. He voted against Keystone XL, opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, wants to expand the Voting Rights Act, and pass the Equal Rights Amendment.

[jacqueline]

I hope this quiets The Wall Street Journal <3 Love Bernie!

[elementalgreen]

- Bernie Sander's net worth is 500k, if he becomes president, he would be the first non millionaire president since Harry S. Truman in 1945, over 60 years ago!
- Hillary Clinton's net worth is 31m, if she becomes president she would be the first president to have gone through FBI investigations.
- Donald Trump's net worth is 4b, if he becomes president, he would be the first billionaire president.

[teddygalvez]

please Iowa we need you.
Bernie for the win

[wonkaherb]

bernie should also bring up soldiers getting a dishonorable discharge for smoking marrijuanna on there free time. imagine serving your country and getting that label for THAT reason ridiculous

[playeryoung]

It is time that corporations #feelthebern

[dapnaineh]

He teaches us something new everyday. You see that girl, right side of the screen? when Bernie said, they paid $0 in taxes, she was almost mind blown. #FEELTHEBERNMOMENT

[surajpoudel]

COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE "SANDMAN"

[Lucuskane]

#feelthebern
Iowans start the BERN CAUCUS monday, be there by 7pm!
#berniesanders

[tpowell]

My dear fellow citizens of Iowa, please caucus for Bernie Sanders! We deserve a vibrant, healthy and educated America!

[RonDiggity_VR]

@Bernie2016 Please do the same thing for what you call "Wall St. Speculation". The people need to hear how much money is really traded and so can have some context as to the real size of that system. I want to know how much $ "Wall Street Speculation" represents. #FeelTheBern

[ransom]

Do whatever you can to get out the vote in Iowa on Monday!

[brandonwilliams]

Bernie is a true warrior for the people. No Super PACS, no corporate or wall street puppet strings attached, and best of all, he's not some spray tanned orange goblin of a billionaire that thinks working people's wages are "too high".

[fredbill]

How is he gonna ensure corporations pay the average joe what they should? How will they feel obliged to return operations to the US? I have been looking for his ans...wait, okay found them on his website. Still have my doubts, but someone has to try and bring back that lost wealth! Bernie 2016!

[eminemdabest]

It sucks that I have to wait a year to vote. You older people better not screw this up. Get out there and vote!

[koukimonzta]

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ! Through Bernies eyes !!!

[nedthumberland]

It is high time we all stood up to echo Sanders's message to this great country: love one another, care for one another, feed the hungry, heal the wounded, lift the downtrodden, and stand up together to the oppressors who sit on their thrones of immense wealth and power and shamelessly seek to take more and more from those who have so very little to survive, to feed their children, and to build their futures on.

[whyamimrpink]

A little history lesson, federal income taxes were unconstitutional before 1913 and before that year the vast majority of individuals and businesses paid $0 in federal income taxes.

[youngatheart]

he corporate media is doing what it does best, it supports establishment politicians be it from the right or left they are scared to death of Bernie Sanders because he's a candidate for the average joe and not the corporate elite

[snoopy_poopy]

I absolutely love Bernie, but can't the corporations just move their headquarters to some other country?

[brentshowers]

we can no longer sit by and watch OUR nation OURS! fall into disrepair because some greedy ass class wont accept change its time to fight with everything we got. bernie sanders 2016!