Bernie vs. the billionaires
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:54.3 | Hi and welcome to Today Explained Saturday. |
| 0:56.8 | This week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. |
| 0:59.8 | Senator Bernie Sanders has just introduced his Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair |
| 1:03.8 | Share Act, a 5% annual wealth tax on anyone making more than a billion dollars. |
| 1:09.9 | Now, that would be roughly 930-ish people, and of course it includes some big names. |
| 1:15.5 | Someone like Elon Musk would pay up to $40 billion under the law. |
| 1:19.9 | Someone like Mark Zuckerberg, about $11 billion. |
| 1:22.8 | But Senator Sanders said it would fund something important, |
| 1:25.5 | up to $3,000 in direct payments for anyone |
| 1:28.6 | living in a household that makes less than $150,000. |
| 1:32.7 | That means up to $12,000 for a family of four. |
| 1:36.2 | Now, this bill has little chance of becoming law. |
| 1:39.2 | Donald Trump would almost certainly veto it, and it's a hard chance it would even get through |
| 1:42.7 | Congress. |
| 1:43.8 | But I still think it's important, because it speaks to something that's been growing among |
| 1:48.5 | the American public and a signal that Senator Sanders is setting when it comes to the 2026 elections, |
| 1:54.4 | and of course, the 28 presidential election. So I wanted to ask Senator Sanders how this bill |
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