Bernie Sanders Warns GOP That America Is Waking Up To Giveaways For The Rich
Hours after
Senate Republicans passed their wildly unpopular tax bill on Saturday morning, Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told a crowd gathered at an event in Dayton, Ohio,
that he had just witnessed the “biggest act of thievery in the modern history
of this country.” The 2016 Democratic
presidential candidate referred to the tax rewrite as “class warfare,” and said
Republicans are “looting the federal government” to give handouts to
corporations and the wealthy.
But he stressed that
the GOP won’t get away with it. While the system “thrives on” people falling
asleep, he said, that’s the opposite of what is happening. “We are winning the
fight for the vision of the future of America,” he said, drawing applause. “Our
vision, your vision, is gaining momentum all across this country.” Sanders pointed
to a
wave of Democratic victories in early November, when the party picked
up a pair of governorships, key state legislative seats and control of the
state governments of New Jersey and Washington. “Donald
Trump’s name may not have been on the ballot,” Sanders said, “but
Trump-ism was on the ballot and it lost badly.”
The senator urged the
audience to rally against the tax proposal — which is expected to raise the national deficit by $1.47 trillion — in the
same way that America did in
response to Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. “We are the vast
majority of the American people,” he said. “Their ideas have very little
support. So what our job is is to bring people together. Don’t let them divide
us up by the color of our skin or where we were born or our religion. Let us
stand together. Let us think big. Let us transform this country.”
Saturday’s rally was
part of a four-city tour against the GOP tax bill organized by progressive
groups MoveOn.org and
Not One Penny.
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