In a fiery speech in Los Angeles, the Vermont senator criticizes \u2018grotesque\u2019 levels of economic inequality<\/p>\n
Billionaires are \u201ctreading on very, very thin ice,\u201d Bernie Sanders warned on Wednesday during a fiery speech in Los Angeles, imploring California voters to fight \u201cgrotesque\u201d levels of economic inequality by approving a proposed tax<\/a> on the state\u2019s richest residents.<\/p>\n The Vermont senator railed against the \u201cgreed\u201d, \u201carrogance\u201d and \u201cmoral turpitude\u201d of the nation\u2019s \u201cruling class\u201d, calling it \u201cfairly disgusting\u201d that some ultra-wealthy tech leaders have fled California \u2013 or are threatening to do so<\/a>, if the proposed wealth tax becomes law.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a fiery speech in Los Angeles, the Vermont senator criticizes \u2018grotesque\u2019 levels of economic inequality Billionaires are \u201ctreading on very, very thin ice,\u201d Bernie Sanders warned on Wednesday during a fiery speech in Los Angeles, imploring California voters to fight \u201cgrotesque\u201d levels of economic inequality by approving a proposed tax on the state\u2019s richest … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}