Bernie Sanders says 'Warren Buffett was right' about the wealthy winning the class war, and calls for higher taxes on the rich

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Sen. Bernie Sanders invoked Warren Buffett's famous quote about the wealthy winning the class war in a tweet on Saturday.

"Warren Buffett was right," the progressive lawmaker said. "There is class warfare in America and his side is winning."

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning," Buffett famously said in a 2006 interview.

Sanders on Saturday highlighted the disconnect between tens of millions of Americans facing eviction due to the pandemic, and billionaires adding to their fortunes in recent weeks.

"I'm very much in sympathy with the fact that Senator Sanders believes that a lot of people are getting left behind and through no fault of their own," Buffett said in a CNBC interview in February.

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Warren Buffett famously told The New York Times in 2006 that the wealthiest Americans were only growing richer and more powerful despite mounting resentment towards them.

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