Username checks out part 2. Everyone saw those headlines coming. It’s based on nothing really.
Stating facts about tax cuts for the rich or how money is distributed in America isn’t demonizing the rich. I also see we are worried about the national debt again. Tweet Trump. Economic illiteracy? Is that your opinion?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/bernie-sanders-tax.html?searchResultPosition=3
The answer seems to be that Sanders got a lot of book royalties after the 2016 campaign, and was afraid that revealing this fact would produce headlines mocking him for now being part of the 1 Percent. Indeed, some journalists did try to make his income an issue.
This line of attack is, however, deeply stupid. Politicians who support policies that would raise their own taxes and strengthen a social safety net they’re unlikely to need aren’t being hypocrites; if anything, they’re demonstrating their civic virtue.
Even now, most Americans don’t seem to realize just how rich today’s rich are. At a recent event, my CUNY colleague Janet Gornick was greeted with disbelief when she mentioned in passing that the top 25 hedge fund managers make an average of $850 million a year. But her number was correct.
One survey found that Americans, on average, think that corporate C.E.O.s are paid about 30 times as much as ordinary workers, which hasn’t been true since the 1970s. These days the ratio is more like 300 to 1.