OpEd: Bernie Sanders: Our campaign is different

[Donkees]

Senator Bernie Sanders 13 hrs ago

Excerpt:

When we are in the White House, we are not going to continue coddling the insurance companies and the drug companies that are ripping off Americans. We are going to guarantee health care as a right to all our people through a Medicare for All program.

When we are in the White House, we are not going to keep giving fossil fuel companies enormous taxpayer subsidies. We are going to transition to renewable energy and hold fossil fuel executives accountable for their deliberate actions that created the climate crisis.

When we are in the White House, we are not going to let chemical companies continue polluting rivers, streams and drinking water supplies. We are going to stand with states like New Hampshire that are working to put an end to that deadly pollution.

When we are in the White House, we are not going to help billionaires and Wall Street executives secure new tax breaks for the wealthy, and then pay for those tax breaks with cuts to Social Security. We are going to do the opposite: we’re going to start making the wealthy and large profitable corporations pay their fair share, and we are finally going to expand the Social Security benefits on which so many people rely.

When we are in the White House, we are not going to sit idly by as corporations try to bust unions, reduce wages and offshore jobs. We are going to strengthen workers’ rights, we are going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and we are going to rescind federal contracts for companies that shift jobs overseas.

And when we are in the White House, we are going to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision and make sure that billionaires and corporations cannot continue to buy elections and buy legislation.


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