We live in a nation where leaders write laws that give corporations tax benefits for shipping our jobs overseas.
We live in a nation, where, last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made on average $1 billion -- the combined salary of 20,000 teachers. But teachers pay higher taxes.
We live in a nation, where the average CEO makes 400 times the average worker’s salary. A generation ago, the average CEO made 40 times the average worker's salary.
We live in a nation where Senator Chuck Grassley wants to give millionaires $300,000 tax breaks. He says it will help improve the economy. That trickle-down theory just doesn’t work. He said the same thing in 2001 and from 2001 to 2007, the median wage kept dropping.
We live in a country where, unfortunately, patriotism has been hijacked by greed.
At a press conference yesterday, I proposed three principles that I will work for in the United States Senate.
My plan is after the jump.
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