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No wonder he likes big government so much. He now owns homes in excess of $1,000,000. Not bad for a guy who never really held a private sector job before. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house Bernie Sanders now has one thing in common with the millionaires and billionaires and other 1 percenters he so frequently attacked on the campaign trail: he now owns his very own summer home. Vermont magazine Seven Days reported Tuesday that the 74-year-old senator and his wife,Jane Sanders, have purchased a four-bedroom house on the shore of Lake Champlain for roughly $600,000. Jane told Seven Days that they had recently sold a house in Maine that had belonged to her family since the 1900s, and used the proceeds to purchase the new property, which is located in North Hero (population 803, as of the 2010 census). With this purchase, Sanders now owns at least three houses, theothers being in Burlington, VT, and Capitol Hill in D.C. Sanders, an outspoken advocate for the working class who spent his 2016 presidential primary campaign railing against income inequality, remains one of the poorer members of Congress, and his net worth is among the lowest in the Senate. His 2014 tax returns revealed that he and Jane made $205,617 that year, the bulk of which came from Sanders’s $174,000 Senate salary. (Jane, who previously made about $160,000 a year as the president of Burlington College, retired in 2011.) Technically, Bernie’s salary places him in the top 4 percent of income earners, enough to purchase a nice lakefront retirement property with plenty leftover to buy “Feel the Bun” sandwiches from the local Hero’s Welcome General Store: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/290887-sanders-buys-nearly-600k-summer-home Sen. Bernie Sanders BERNIE SANDERS Liberal groups to Clinton: Steer clear of Wall Street Bloomberg poll: Clinton leads Trump by 6 points Clinton Republicans are 2016 trend MORE (I-Vt.) has purchased a nearly $600,000 summer retreat on Vermont’s Champlain Islands, the Vermont newspaper Seven Days reported Monday. “We’ve traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips,” Jane Sanders, the former White House contender's wife, said in a statement. "The entire family is very excited about it.” “We’ve always been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner. St. Anne’s Shrine in Isle La Motte is my favorite church and it is nearby.” The Sanders’ new waterfront home has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront, Seven Days reported. The town of North Hero has fewer than 1,000 residents, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. The Sanders family also owns a row house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and a house in Burlington, Vt.. The residence in Burlington is currently valued at $321,900, according to city property records.