Presidential Hopeful Bernie Sanders In Flint Talking Income Inequality, Tax Breaks For Billionaires
FLINT (CBS Detroit) - Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to a full house of supporters inside a church Thursday afternoon.
With a primary set for Saturday in South Carolina, Sanders spent valuable campaign time in Flint to talk of income inequality and about the water crisis in the city.
"Clearly this is part of a long-term trend of massive levels of income and wealth inequality, starving communities of color of not providing the kind of resources that we need for our children - of more worry about tax breaks for billionaires than decent schools or decent infrastructure," said Sanders.
Sanders said he pays about $70 a month in Vermont for water. That's about $70 less than the average bill in Flint.
"Unless we have the courage to look at the truth, unless we have the courage to face reality, it is hard for us as a community or a nation to go forward," he said.
The U.S. senator from Vermont and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have made Flint ground-zero for their campaigns in Michigan.
With the March 8 presidential primary less than two weeks away, the two candidates are trying to fire up their party's liberal base upset with Gov. Rick Snyder's handling of the crisis.
Sanders was last in Michigan on February 15, when he held a rally at Eastern Michigan University drawing a crowd of nearly 10,000 people.
