The senator fired back at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper with a number designed to sting: $224bn left over. The Washington Post's editorial board called the tax a threat to American capitalism. Bernie Sanders called it maths.
Sanders has never been shy about picking fights with billionaires, but on Tuesday he went after one in particular, and he did it through the man's own newspaper. The Washington Post, which Jeff Bezos bought for $250m back in 2013, published an editorial on Monday accusing Sanders and Representative Ro Khanna of threatening to 'strangle America's golden goose' with their proposed 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires. Sanders responded on social media with the kind of line that travels fast.
