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  • Elizabeth Warren is one of the biggest critics of the rich.

  • In the 2020 Democratic field, recognize that, say, with business people,

  • Wall Street, you're very polarizing.

  • Look, I get that there are a lot of folks who like having the power

  • and the riches they have.

  • They like being able to tweak their little pinky and the United States

  • government does just what they want.

  • Don't call me the polarizing figure.

  • They're the ones who want to say that their personal wealth, their power is

  • more important than building in America that works for everyone.

  • The senator hasn't done so badly herself.

  • She's ranked among the top earners in the Democratic presidential field for

  • the last few years.

  • Last year, she and her husband, Harvard Law Professor Bruce Mann, made

  • about $850,000 in the four years before that.

  • Their incomes ranged between about $716,000 and $1.5 million.

  • The haul puts them firmly in the top 1 percent of U.S.

  • households.

  • Warren is campaigning on dislodging an economic system she says caters to

  • the wealthy and powerful.

  • Washington works great for those at the top.

  • But she stresses that she doesn't want to stop other Americans from making

  • money. Warren's tax returns show it still pays to be an author.

  • She raked in more than $300,000 from writing last year, and that's small

  • potatoes compared to what she made in 2014.

  • Her income from consulting, lecturing, writing and investing was nearly

  • $1.2 million.

  • Warren has written multiple books over the years.

  • She's been writing both during her Senate tenure and as a Harvard law

  • professor before that.

  • And it's not just the book money that made Warren and Mann rich.

  • Warren took in about $173,000 from her congressional job last year.

  • Mann made another $400,000 at Harvard, where he focuses on topics like legal

  • history, non-profits and estates.

  • So why does their wealth matter?

  • Warren wants to fundamentally change the political and economic system to

  • help working and middle class Americans.

  • Her proposed 2 percent tax on wealth above $50 million is the main source

  • of money for her plans, like widespread student debt relief and universal

  • childcare. But Warren says she doesn't want to penalize achievement.

  • All we're asking is when you make it that big, put something back in.

  • And we're asking for a little fairness in the system.

  • Even so, critics on the Republican side have noticed how much money she has.

  • I think it points out a real hypocrisy for a bunch of candidates who have

  • eschewed capitalism and who have really used their government office to it

  • to grow their own wealth.

  • If Elizabeth Warren was simply a law school professor peddling textbooks,

  • she would not be making the $350,000 off her book.

  • But it may not be that simple.

  • You could argue that gives them extra credibility, right?

  • That they could be ultimately taxing themselves.

  • And Warren herself says she doesn't want to hold Americans back from

  • financial success.

  • You don't think capitalists are bad people?

  • I am a capitalist.

  • Come on.

  • I believe in markets.

  • What I don't believe in is theft.

  • What I don't believe in is cheating.

  • That's where the differences – I love what markets can do – but only fair

  • markets. Markets with rules, markets without rules is about the rich take

  • it all.

  • It's about the powerful get all of it.

  • It's a message top tier Democrats are stressing constantly during the

  • primary.

  • Donald Trump has put us in a horrible situation.

  • We do have enormous income inequality.

  • Working families need support and need to be lifted up.

  • And frankly, this economy is not working for working people.

  • Well President Trump, you're not standing up for working families when

  • you're trying to throw 32 million people off their health care that they

  • have and that 83 percent of your tax benefits go to the top 1 percent.

  • Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are all millionaires and

  • they're all insisting that their financial success is not going to affect

  • their focus on lifting up working families.

  • It's a message Warren will have to drill into as she tries to lock down the

  • nomination. She and her rivals are arguing a strong economy and stock

  • market records under Trump are not helping average Americans.

  • And that could be key to defeating the president if the economy remains

  • healthy. When you've got government, when you've got an economy that does

  • great for those with money and isn't doing great for everyone else, that is

  • corruption, pure and simple.

  • We need to call it out.

  • We need to attack it head on.

  • And we need to make structural change in our government, in our economy and

  • in our country.

Elizabeth Warren is one of the biggest critics of the rich.

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エリザベス・ウォーレンの稼ぎ方 (How Elizabeth Warren Makes Money)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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