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Goal of this tax is not just to raise more revenue. it's to send a message to corporate america, stop paying your workers inadequate wages while ceos make outrageous compensation packages. ceos will say pthat if you redistribute their wealth, their salary, that it wouldn't be much for the average worker and that doing that is punitive and pointless. >> well we're going to take on the corporate class of america and the billionaire class of america. they have had it all for a long time. when you look at workers wages over the past 45 years have gone nowhere. why do we have this working class cri...

Education. you're not going to have educators. they're not going to go to college and become teachers if they can't pay their student loans and their salaries or compensation packages are so poor they're on public benefits or working two or three jobs. so we did all of the above. it's a comprehensive investment in public education. we did that, my very first legislative session, single largest investment in compensation packages and k through 12 in the history of the state. >> we've seen some presidential candidates, specifically bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, come up with a federal proposa...

And moving them, where? to mexico. i'll be honest with you, if they're focused they're focused on their lives and their packages and what's happening to them and convenient donald trump only tweeted once about this strike. leland: fair enough they're focusing on themselves. sanders says that his health care plan will take away their health care that you just said they're worried about. >> oh, no, no, no. they're not-- here is what's happening. there's a replacement health care, there's not a taking away. they will not have to be fighting with their players about what kind of benefit package th...

Companies last year made $69 billion in profit, huge compensation packages for their ceo's, and yet so many of our people cannot afford the medicine they need. at the end of this month i'm going to ontario canada, from detroit michigan, with a busload people who have diabetes to buy insulin at one 10th of the price in canada we're forced to pay in the united states. this is about taking on the drug companies and insurance companies and telling them the function of a rational health care system, is health care to all, not huge profits for the stockholders and ceo's of the health care industry. ...

That? >> it shows compensation packages for the ceos have continued to grow at a rapid pace, definitely outpatient what's happening for workers in terms of hourly wages. we have seen that the higher income people have been able to collect more gains of come from the growth coming out of the great recession. i have a hard time seeing how that will continue to be the case as we see this sort of growth going forward. companies need to fill jobs of god creative and they been able to do so without raising wages so far. at some point there is just a lack of workers to fill the jobs and they have to ...