Comment by Bernie Sanders

The billions, if not trillions, generated by this legislation would provide direct payments to the American people and help guarantee health care, education and housing as human rights. AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified Quote attributed to Bernie Sanders (2026) from his op-ed "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies" on sanders.senate.gov. WebFetch of the source_url returned HTTP 403, but an independent web search returned the verbatim quote ("The billions, if not trillions, generated by this legislation would provide direct payments to the American people and help guarantee health care, education and housing as human rights") attributed to this exact op-ed, corroborated by multiple secondary sources (Yahoo Finance, Tom's Hardware, stocktwits). Source URL is the primary source. The "for" vote correctly aligns with the statement "A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits" — Sanders advocates exactly this via his proposed AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. Year 2026 is correct and recent. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9h ago
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