The self-described socialist senator from Vermont wants to reverse the "massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent.
"The issue we're dealing with is actually the struggle to rebuild American democracy," Sanders said in an interview at a Capitol Hill bistroβ¦.
"Ninety-nine percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent. The top one-tenth of 1 percent owns as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. Does anybody think this is the kind of economy we should have. Do we think it's moral?"
"These people are so greedy, they're so out of touch with reality. They think they own the worldβ¦. I'm sorry to have to tell them, they live in the United States, they benefit from the United States, we have kids who are hungry in this country. We have people who are working two, three, four jobs, who can't send their kids to college."
Invoking the concerns of Pope Francis, Sanders blistered what he called "a casino-type capitalism, which is out of control, where the people on top have lost any sense of responsibility for the rest of the society."
Someday, talk like his will be as mainstream as is the assumption today that Americans are overtaxed.