Where We Go From Here, by Bernie Sanders: on Corporations

Bernie Sanders: Great Recession caused by Wall Street greed & recklessness

The Republicans want us to forget that as a a result of the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Some 800,000 people a month were losing their jobs. We were running up a record-breaking deficit of $1.4 trillion, and the world's financial system was on the verge of collapse.

We have come a long way in the last seven and a half years, and I thank President Obama and Vice President Biden for their leadership in pulling us out of that terrible recession.

Bernie Sanders: Disallow stashing corporate profits overseas to avoid taxes

• Breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and passing a twenty-first-century Glass-Steagall Act;
  • Expanding Social Security by increasing taxes on those making over $250,000 a year;
  • Preventing employers from cutting the earned pension benefits of more than 1.5 million Americans;
  • Closing loopholes that allow corporations to stash their cash offshore to avoid paying taxes, and using the revenue generated by this policy to create millions of jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure;
  • Making it easier for workers to join unions through majority card-check recognition and by ensuring a first contract through binding arbitration.
    I appreciated the willingness of the Clinton team and the DNC to work with us and create a platform that we could all be proud of. Source: Where We Go From Here, by B. Sanders, p.16-7, on 2016 DNC Jul 9, 2016

    Democratic Party: Disallow stashing corporate profits overseas to avoid taxes

    [At the 2016 convention preparation], we were victorious in including amendments in the platform that made it the policy of the Democratic Party to fight for:
    • Breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and passing a twenty-first-century Glass-Steagall Act;
      • Expanding Social Security by increasing taxes on those making over $250,000 a year;
      • Preventing employers from cutting the earned pension benefits of more than 1.5 million Americans;
      • Closing loopholes that allow corporations to stash their cash offshore to avoid paying taxes, and using the revenue generated by this policy to create millions of jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure;
      • Making it easier for workers to join unions through majority card-check recognition and by ensuring a first contract through binding arbitration.
        I appreciated the willingness of the Clinton team and the DNC to work with us and create a platform that we could all be proud of. Source: Where We Go From Here, by B. Sanders, p.16-7, on 2016 DNC Jul 9, 2016

        The above quotations are from Where We Go From Here Two Years in the Resistance, by Bernie Sanders. Click here for definitions & background information on Corporations. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Bernie Sanders on Corporations.
        2020 Presidential contenders on Corporations:
        	Republicans: Gov.John Kasich(OH) V.P.Mike Pence(IN) Pres.Donald Trump(NY) Gov.Bill Weld(MA)	Democrats: V.P.Joe Biden(DE) Sen.Bernie Sanders(VT) Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA) 2020 Third Party Candidates: Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM) Howard Schultz(I-WA)
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