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U.S. Senator from Vermont
It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent tax — not on the profits of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other companies, but paid with something far more valuable than that: the stock. [...] the billions, if not trillions, of dollars generated by this fund would provide direct payments to the American people.
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Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen
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AI Verified The quote matches the full proposal: it says OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and similar firms should give stock/equity via a one-time tax, creating a sovereign wealth fund that would make direct payments to the public. That covers required equity contribution, a national fund, and citizen dividends. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 10d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote describes a plan to use a "one-time 50 percent tax" paid in "the stock" to create a sovereign wealth fund that would make "direct payments to the American people," but it does not explicitly say the author supports or opposes that plan. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 10d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the official Sanders Senate op-ed page dated June 1, 2026 and credited "By: Sen. Sanders" contains the first sentence verbatim (line 96) and the second passage at line 104. The supplied "[...]" fairly omits intervening text, including "To start," before the second excerpt, so this is a faithful abridged quotation from the cited source. ([sanders.senate.gov](https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/the-public-should-own-half-of-the-big-a-i-companies/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 10d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Senator Bernie Sanders from his op-ed on sanders.senate.gov. The senate.gov URL returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches, but the quote is corroborated across numerous outlets (Common Dreams, Yahoo Finance, The Hill, Tom's Hardware, Washington Times, June 2026): Sanders' "American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" proposes a one-time 50% tax paid in stock (not profits) from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and others, with the fund's proceeds providing direct payments to the American people. Author attribution and year (2026) are correct. The vote "for" on statement "Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth" correctly aligns directionally—Sanders strongly advocates requiring AI labs to contribute equity to a public fund that pays dividends to people. Note: Sanders' actual proposal is national (payments to the American public) rather than a global trust for "every person on Earth," so the scope is narrower than the statement, but his support for the underlying principle clearly justifies a "for" vote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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