Yes really - owns two houses and a condo. From Time/Money:
Bernie Sanders Is a De Facto Millionaire
Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rails against the “billionaire class,” has called income inequality “the greatest moral issue of our time,” and has made a big point of contrasting his earnings against his peers in this election.
While the senator is indeed far less wealthy than many of his Senate colleagues — as well as his fellow presidential contenders — he is not exactly a man of modest means.
Newsbusters has a bit more:
Billionaire-Bashing Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rails against the “billionaire class” and has called income inequality “the greatest moral issue of our time,” but the senator from Vermont is “not exactly a man of modest means,” according to an article written by Kerri Anne Renzulli for the TIME magazine website.
However, “nothing about Bernie’s net worth devalues his progressive beliefs,” stated Peter Daou, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton who responded on the Blue Nation Review website to reports that Sanders and his wife, Jane, could retire with an “effective retirement nest egg” valued at “nearly $2 million.”
Daou began his article by stating:
If voters had a dime for every time Bernie Sanders railed against millionaires and billionaires, they’d be millionaires.
OK, that’s an exaggeration, but there’s no denying that Bernie has portrayed millionaires as one of society’s greatest ills.
“It is highly unlikely there’s anything newsworthy or untoward in Bernie’s unreleased tax returns -- which is what makes his evasiveness baffling,” the head of True Blue Media noted.
“Perhaps it’s something much simpler: Bernie and Jane Sanders are millionaires,” he continued. “So what happens to Bernie’s campaign if he is a millionaire?”
It's hypocracy all the way down.
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