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Sanders: We should not be the country that has … more wealth and income inequality than any other country.

This is simply false.

When we first criticized Sanders for a similar claim back on May 28, he at least qualified it by saying U.S. inequality was the widest of any “major” country. As we said in May, that’s true only if Sanders excludes nations such as Russia, Turkey and Brazil from his definition of “major.”

But in the debate, Sanders substituted “any” for “major,” and turned what we charitably called an exaggeration into a flat-out falsehood.

We found that the U.S. ranked 42nd in income inequality using the “Gini index,” a widely used measure of inequality, according to the World Bank.

And as for wealth, the U.S. ranked 16th in the share of wealth held by the richest 1 percent, out of the 46 economies studied. Russia, Turkey, Egypt and Brazil were among those whose top 1 percent held more of their nations’ wealth. That was according to the 2014 “Global Wealth Databook.”

Update, Oct. 14: After this article was posted, we also reviewed the 2015 edition of the Global Wealth Databook, which was published earlier in October by Credit Suisse. It tells much the same story as the 2014 edition.

The share of wealth held by the top 1 percent in the U.S. has actually declined a bit — to an estimated 37.3 percent, down from 38.4 percent the year before.

This time the U.S. ranks 11th among the 37 nations listed, behind Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, China, Czech Republic and Israel. China and Israel moved ahead of the U.S. on this year’s list.

Furthermore, seven nations that ranked higher than the U.S. in 2014 are not included in this year’s edition. They are: Turkey, Hong Kong (which we are including as a “nation” for convenience even though the former British colony is now a special administrative region of China), Philippines, Egypt, Peru, Malaysia and Argentina. Since wealth concentrations don’t change quickly, it is safe to assume that most, if not all, of these would still rank ahead of the U.S. had they been included in the 2015 edition.

I think Bernie is nothing more than a prop for Hillary to run to the left of, or at least parallel to, in order to attract the far left of the Dem base. Then, watch her tack center-right during the general election.

I'm fairly certain all of them did during the night. But, A) Democrats really don't value Israel as an ally that Republicans do. B) Democrats aren't warhawks like Republicans. It's no surprise these concerns aren't as big on the left than on the right. Just two different voter bases.

Yes, I understand that. However, I choose the safety of this nation for future generations over a false misrepresentation.of a temperature increase.

You guys crack me up. Bernie is your next President.

Maybe you are right and he will pick Putin as his running mate.