Bernie Sanders campaigns for California's billionaire tax
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Bernie Sanders, the senior United States senator from Vermont, accused billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sergey Brin of spending millions to kill a ballot measure instead of “paying their fair share.
The senators want the Government Accountability Office to investigate.
In Durham, he’ll be joined by County Commissioner Nida Allam, a progressive Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee.
Sanders wrote on social media that he strongly supports the tax “at a time of unprecedented and growing wealth and income inequality.”