Director Nussel: (Nods head up and down)
Senator Sanders: All the benefits of the Estate Tax go to the richest three-tenths of one-percent. If the Estate Tax is completely repealed, the Walton family, which is worth 80 billion dollars, which owns Wal-Mart, will get over 30 billion dollars in tax relief. Do you think the Walton family needs 30 billion dollars in tax relief, when you’re cutting back on healthcare, when you’re cutting back on programs that feed hungry people; hungry senior citizens? Let me hear the moral, your administration talks a lot about morality, and family values. Now tell me about the morality of giving tax breaks to the Walton family, worth 80 billion dollars, and cutting back on the needs of the most desperate. Look! As far as that, . . . justification for raising the fees of our veterans who are getting into the VA hospital, that will drive veterans off of the VA.
Director Nussel: Well, these are the, ah, these are the, ah, veterans who, ah, have incomes that are higher than . . .
Senator Sanders: Yuh, twenty-seven thousand dollars a year. You know, what I want to hear is a simple, man to man, man to man . . . You tell me about tax breaks for billionaires and cutting back on the needs of veterans and low income people.
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