Giridharadas: All Democratic Candidates Should Be Asked One Debate Question | The Last Word | MSNBC

Anand Giridharadas tells Lawrence O’Donnell that all Democratic presidential candidates should be asked whether they want to see more billionaires and millionaires at the end of their first term than there were at the beginning of their term. Aired on 02/24/20.
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47 comments

  1. The answer is clear. Betsy Devos makes her money trying to push charter schools over public schools. She donates money to Trump. He puts her in charge of education! In Wisconsin, they gave billionaires a tax break and took the money out of public schools. A prominent billionaire in the state: a hedge fund manager for charter schools. Then you have ALEC — industry reps who write laws for legislators. And then Private Prisons demand a 90% occupancy rate to stay profitable. If maintaining that means incarcerating more people, so be it.

  2. Is that one question: “Will you sell out our democracy at the drop of a hat in order to win an election?”
    Because that’s really the only one that matters for 2020.

    1. Ro G there is no billionaire who didn’t lie plenty to get their billions – unless they inherited it, in which case they just lie *about* it. The one question I would ask is: “why should we believe anything you say?”

  3. I might be imagining it but the look on Lawrence’s face seemed like a look of pride. Like “good on Anand for having the balls to say the truth on air”

  4. Bernie is not talking about millionaires, he is talking about Billionaires. That’s with a B. Big difference in what a millionaire with a Porsche and a Billionaire who owns Comcast or the Washington post can do to the population. It’s not the 1% that’s the problem, it’s the 0.01%. Just a very few people destroying a nation.

    1. @RunFor OurLives
      To be fair it all depends on the definition of “nice” For 270k my house is nice, and they burn it down and every house in my neighborhood to build half their mansion.

    2. ​@Lydia Bell Well Jeff Bezos just bought a house for $165m, a little over 0.1% of his net worth. That’s the equivalent of someone with a net worth of $500,000 buying a house for under $600. I’d definitely consider him one of them.

  5. I’m not a Bernie fan but I’ll say this he’s not even close to being a billionaire! I think when Lawrence said he was one he was thinking millionaire which Bernie earned by writing a couple of popular books.

    1. All the money Bernie has, which doesn’t count much in today’s world of those who are better of, is a couple millions from writing books.

    2. CHRIS MATHEWS MAKES 400K A MONTH FOR EXAMPLE THAT’S ABOUT 5 MILLION A YR ALMOST EVERY ONE ON TV RICHER THEN BERNIE SANDERS

    3. He said Bernie was a millionaire, not a billionaire. He just wasn’t super clear and they sound similar. But he says millionaire

    1. I love the fact that you used “when” instead of “if”, implying that that will happen at some point no matter what.

  6. Bernie has actually answered his question. he doesn´t have anything against people getting rich as long as it´s from an even playing field.

  7. This man is one of the most interesting people out there. Whenever I watch him on TV, he’s got something very smart to say.

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