During a Fox News Channel town hall on Monday, Sanders said that he'd increased his income by publishing a book - he's written two with campaign themes - and that he wouldn't apologize for that. Brett Baier of Fox News pointedly asked Sen. Of course, wealth often does influence someone's views, but it's not determinative - the most egalitarian president in American history, Franklin Roosevelt, was a scion of extreme wealth and privilege, far richer than Sanders will ever be.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who far out-raised other Democrats in the first quarter by bringing in nearly $18.2 million, received an average of about $443,568 per day. "Right here. You got it on CBS", Sanders joked, adding, "No, I don't think so". Sanders can now realistically cast himself as the frontrunner, and despite all his success in 2016 and his fundraising and volunteer success this year-and though some of us have always believed he was the favorite in this primary-he's never truly been able to say that before. Sanders reported paying a 26% effective tax rate on his adjusted gross income.
Sanders previous year made $110 in music royalties, presumably for his 1987 folk album, "We Shall Overcome", and an additional $1,810 from his 1997 memoir, "Outsider in the House", which was published by Verso.
Taxes paid: $697,611, or 37%. Clinton, by contrast, released 8 years worth of complete returns. Millions of people every single year lose their health insurance, you know why?