Posted on 03/29/2023 5:22:54 PM PDT by Libloather
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, got into a heated back-and-forth with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Wednesday over Sanders’s net worth as the panel questioned Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
“I take offense to the chairman pointing out that all CEOs are corrupt because they’re millionaires. … It’s bothering to me because, Mr. Chairman, you yourself have been very successful. Rightfully so. Glad you have. You’ve been in office for 28 years and you and your wife have [amassed] a wealth of over $8 million,” Mullin said of Sanders during the hearing. “If you can be a millionaire, why can’t Mr. Schultz and other CEOs be millionaires and be honest too?”
The Oklahoma senator also took a knock at Sanders for his best-selling book as he defended Schultz from criticism.
“Why is it that Mr. Schultz, who actually creates jobs - a best seller of a book isn’t creating any jobs - why is it that he’s corrupt and you’re not? Why is it that all CEOs are corrupt because they’re wealthy? And yet our chairman, who is wealthy - and I’m glad you are - you’re not?” he asked Sanders.
Sanders parried back that Mullin had hit an “all-time record” of misstatements in his critiques.
“You’ve made more misstatements in a shorter period of time than I have ever heard. Well, if I’m worth $8 million, that’s good news to me,” Sanders said. “I’m not aware of it. That’s a lie.”
When Mullin countered that he’d learned the figure from public records, the committee chairman responded that he was “probably looking at some phony right wing internet stuff” and encouraged Mullin to “read beyond that.”
Sanders has acknowledged that he hit millionaire status a few years ago...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Simple....dare him to give his tax records.
You would, at minimum, need property tax records, bank records, etc. to get to net worth.
Go for those as well. Dare him to show.
Interesting it is since that dork has never had a real job and couldn’t run a lemonade stand. Oh, forgot, he’s a senator (Latin for corrupt, ignorant, and most probably a talking anus). Sorta like a certain President that used to be in that “class(less)”.
Tax records don’t mean diddly squat.
Provide us an audited financial statemnent.
I understand Bernie’s rage here. Eight million? It’s closer to twelve million!
I’m good with that. But don’t sinators and house critters have to provide this kind of information already?
We’re not supposed to talk about all the money libtard’s amass while ‘serving the public’.
“Wealth inequality’ is a legitimate term only if you are a Communist.
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