Sanders: Middle class ‘should be angry’ about inequality
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rallied South Carolina voters Saturday morning as he weighs a potential presidential bid to challenge early Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Speaking at the South Carolina Democratic Convention, Sanders said he understands middle-class fury about what he calls nationwide inequality.
“They should be angry,” Sanders said, according to the South Carolina’s Post and Courier.
{mosads}Sanders drew a line between the wealthy and the middle class, which he said is struggling through one of the most difficult economies since the Great Depression.
“They have the money, but we’ve got the people,” Sanders said. “Our job is to educate, to organize and to say enough is enough. America does not belong to the billionaire class it belongs to all of us.”
Hillary Clinton did not attend the convention Saturday.
In February, Sanders attacked Clinton, saying she wouldn’t fight for the middle class against income inequality.
“Is Hillary Clinton — are other candidates — prepared to take on the billionaire class?” Sanders asked at the time. “Based on her record, I don’t [think so].”
Sanders also proposed a so-called “war tax” last month that would rely on millionaires to finance war.
“Wars are enormously expensive, not only in terms of human life and suffering, but in terms of the budget. If the Republicans want another war in the Mideast, they are going to have to tell the American people how much it will cost them and how it will be paid for,” Sanders said.
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