Bernie Sanders calls out Bezos, Musk, Bloomberg and Buffett in billionaire tax push: ‘The richest people in America have never ever had it so good’

Main Idea: Bernie Sanders is pushing a billionaire tax and says the richest Americans, including Elon Musk and Warren Buffett, are paying far less in taxes than ordinary workers.

Key Points:

• Sanders says the U.S. tax system is tilted toward the wealthy and argues that billionaire wealth has grown while many Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
• He and Rep. Ro Khanna have proposed a 5% tax on the country’s 938 billionaires, with revenue meant to fund major social programs and send checks to lower-income Americans.
• Sanders says Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg all have very low effective tax rates compared with workers like truck drivers, nurses, teachers, and firefighters.
• The idea is gaining political support in some places, as more voters say the rich and big corporations pay too little in taxes.