Warren Gunnels
@GunnelsWarren
Minority Staff Director for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member @SenSanders
Blatantly Pro-Union
AKA: Chief of Receipts
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If Bernie’s 5% a year billionaire wealth tax had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1 trillion he’s worth today. He’d still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior in America would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.
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.@BernieSanders is correct. This community note is misleading. The figures he uses come from the Fed data minus durable goods & promises of future Social Security benefits to provide a more accurate reflection of household wealth. They come directly from
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The problem isn't the single mom getting $6 a day in food stamps.
The problem is Jeff Bezos, worth $269 billion, more than doubled his wealth since 2020 while paying wages so low the number of Amazon workers on food stamps & Medicaid nearly tripled.
Bezos is the welfare queen.
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Just out: 62% of jobs in the U.S. pay wages that are so low they can't support a middle-class lifestyle. Most of the jobs in America today don’t pay enough for families to take a vacation, save for retirement, or live in a moderately-priced home. Not great
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