claim: "as a u.s. senator with salary and perks, ‪#‎bernie‬ is in the top 1 percent, but still paid only 13 percent in taxes last year."
author: dinesh d'souza
evidence_1: senator sanders would end these loopholes by requiring u.s. companies to pay  taxes ... under sanders' plan, corporations would pay u.s. taxes on their offshore  ... the estate tax now applies only to the wealthiest 0.2 percent of americans, but  ... by applying it with no exclusion to any trust set up to last more than 50 years.
evidence_2: jan 11, 2013 ... the email claims that congress gets special perks nobody else does; ...  members of congress can "retire with the same pay after only one term" in office  ... but the still-circulating email contains another claim that several ... the number  of years of service and a multiplier, which is 1.7 percent for ... back to top ...
evidence_3: aug 12, 2016 ... tech · politics · cnbc tv. menu. search quotes. 1 / 13 ... as presidential  hopeful hillary clinton releases her latest tax returns, ... it stacks up with past  presidents, here are the top 10 richest presidents in u.s. history, .... paying your  taxes ... nominee for u.s. president donald trump, arrives for a senate.
evidence_4: aug 27, 2018 ... some doctors and hospitals would stand to lose big -- but others could reap ...  when a libertarian think-tank published a study of sen. bernie sanders's (i-vt.)  medicare for all plan last month, it said that ... a centrist think-tank, found the  number is closer to 13 percent. .... try 1 month for $10 $1 ... no thanks.
evidence_5: oct 23, 2017 ... the official u.s. senate website of senator bernie sanders of vermont. ... while  20 percent of working families earning the $7.25 minimum wage or below live in  poverty, 13 percent of families ... the gao's study noted that the growing divide  between the top 1 percent and everyone else is not only due to ...