‘I don’t think it’s productive’: Sanders dodges question on ‘wage cap’ he once championed

By Tim Pearce

Published February 9, 2020 5:16pm ET

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‘I don’t think it’s productive’: Sanders dodges question on ‘wage cap’ he once championed — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the J Street National Conference, with the hosts of "Pod Save the World," Tommy Vietor, left, and Ben Rhodes, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Washington. | (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Bernie Sanders refused to say whether he still backs capping the wages of the top earners in the United States.

The senator from Vermont appeared on CNN on Sunday to discuss his campaign for president with State of the Union host Jake Tapper, who questioned the self-identified democratic socialist about a wage cap policy he championed in the 1970s and remained interested in until at least the early 1990s.

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