evidence: "Are you basically saying that once you get to $999 million, the government should confiscate all the rest?" he was asked—to which Sanders responded: "Yeah." "You may disagree with me, but I think people can make it on $999 million," Sanders added. "I think that they can survive just fine." [...] Sanders has long touted the idea of imposing much higher taxes on the wealthiest factions of U.S. society, proposing a wealth tax in 2019 when he was running to be the Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election.