Millionaire on salary: how much money does America’s main socialist Bernie Sanders have

The second round of the 27 Democratic presidential debate took place on June 2020. Senator Bernie Sanders didn't hold back in his campaign for "real change." Sanders is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist who has spent his career championing low-income Americans against the ultra-wealthy. It turns out his net worth is two million dollars.

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During the debates, Sanders emphasized his position on the Medicare for All program, raising his hand when asked who is ready to give up his private insurance plan for the state alternative, writes GOBankingRates.

Senator Kamala Harris, Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Michael Bennett, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttidzhich, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Former Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper, California Congressman Eric Suwellwell, a well-known writer in the genre Self-help Marianna Williamson and entrepreneur Andrew Young.

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“Vermont Independent” Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist and career politician who fought for the American middle class by warning against the ultra-rich in the United States. Senator Sanders has been a longtime ideological champion of middle and lower class America.

Look at his own capital at the time when Sanders is preparing for the next presidential run.

• Date of birth: September 8 1941
• Net worth: 2 million dollars
• Main source of income: career policy
• Career highlights: Mayor of Burlington, Vermont; congressman, Vermont; senator, vermont

Millionaire on salary

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Sanders own capital is 2 million dollars, plus he gets a salary of US senators in 174 thousands of dollars a year.

Sanders remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. During the presidential election of 2016, he won the hearts and minds of thousands of voters, in part due to his free college tuition platform, LGBTQ rights protection, environmental protection, fair taxes, and easing marijuana laws. During the first two years of the presidential term, Donald Trump Sanders was in direct confrontation with the president and opposed the legislation of the administration more than 80% of the time.

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Bernie Sanders start in politics

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is the son of a Polish immigrant. He and his family lived in a modest rent-controlled apartment. Sanders left Brooklyn for the Midwest to attend the University of Chicago. His coming of age in the early 1960s coincided with the civil rights movement. Sanders was a student activist who organized sit-ins in opposition to segregation. He was also one of the 250 people who came to Washington, D.C. to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech during the August 000 march.

In the end, Sanders moved to Vermont and entered the political scene in the 1970's. After unsuccessful attempts to win a seat in the US Senate, Sanders concentrated his efforts on local government, and in 1981, he won the race of mayors in Burlington, Vermont. In 1990, Sanders became the only congressman from Vermont. Over the past three decades, Sanders opposed a large pharmacy, denounced the war, advocated the Affordable Care Act and defended low-income Americans.

Sanders and his wife Jane have four children and seven grandchildren. The couple lives in Burlington.

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