Bernie Sanders’ billionaire tax would soak about 900 people to fund $3,000 checks for the middle class

Imagine a small concert venue, maybe 900 people, give or take. That’s relatively the size of a small cruise ship, or the average public high school in the U.S. A group that size collectively holds more wealth than the bottom half of the country combined, because that’s roughly how many billionaires live in the U.S. But a new bill is asking the people in that hypothetical concert venue or high school to chip in, and to bankroll thousand-dollar checks to millions of middle-class Americans.