Bernie Sanders wants to snap Disney’s ‘Avengers’ profits

By John Gage

Published April 30, 2019 9:23pm ET

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Bernie Sanders wants to snap Disney’s ‘Avengers’ profits — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, gestures as he speaks for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum during a campaign stop for Gillum Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. | (Chris O'Meara/AP)

Sen. Bernie Sanders urged The Walt Disney Company to redistribute the profits from its latest blockbuster film.

“What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million – over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes,” the Vermont independent and Democratic presidential hopeful said Monday.

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