# Philly Soda Tax Would Punish the Poor - Bernie Sanders

Trying to improve the health of our children and our citizens is a great goal, but we cannot put the tax burden on the shoulders of the poor and working families. Sec. Clinton would support a soda tax that punishes the middle and lower class, and that is not okay.

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★ About Bernie: Bernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years before defeating an incumbent Republican to be the sole congressperson for the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents and grew up in a small, rent-controlled apartment. His father came to the United States from Poland at the age of 17 without much money or a formal education. While attending the University of Chicago, a 20-year-old Sanders led students in a multi-week sit-in…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Bernie 2016
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philly_Soda_Tax_Would_Punish_the_Poor_-_Bernie_Sanders.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Bernie 2016
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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