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Emma Burleigh

Kevin O'Leary blasts attacks on billionaire entrepreneurs as a 'huge mistake’—He says they don't get enough credit for the jobs they've created

Investing icon Kevin O'Leary (Credit: Roy Rochlin / Contributor / Getty Images)

The widening wealth gap has become top of mind across all income levels—from the Occupy Wall Street movement, to petitions led by the ultra-rich demanding higher taxes on the wealthy. However, Shark Tank star and investor Kevin O’Leary does not believe that the rise in billionaire wealth should be demonized when it comes to America’s income inequality. 

“What we don’t give credit to [are] these extremely successful entrepreneurs that create hundreds of 1000’s of jobs in America…if not millions,” O’Leary said recently on NewsNation’s On Balance with Leland Vittert podcast. 

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