The real reason the Mercers have cut ties with Steve Bannon

[applegrove]

JACOB SUGARMAN, ALTERNET, Salon

https://www.salon.com/2018/01/09/the-real-reason-the-mercers-have-cut-ties-with-steve-bannon_partner/

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Now we have something approaching an answer.

According to Jane Mayer, who chronicled the Mercers' grip on right-wing politics in her book "Dark Money," the Republican donors actually severed ties with Bannon months ago over his proposal to create a top income-tax rate of 44 percent for Americans earning more than $5 million annually — a proposal that would have directly impacted the Mercer family.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Never heard of him doing that....sounds opposite of what he would seem to want

[marylandblue]

4. It's part of his economic nationalism thing

He really does want to help the white working class, they are his readers, and tried to get Trump to go that way. It's his stand on non-whites that makes him abhorrent.

[Cicada]

6. Bannon sees us at economic war with China, thats his main concern

He goal was to use Trump to wage economic war on China, trade tariffs against Chinese goods, that sort of thing. He doesn’t care about oil, or tax rates, or deficits, or social security. He wants America First, our culture on top of the world, etc. And if taxing the rich keeps Trump in officeto fight the Yellow Peril he’s fine with that.

Of course he is sort of logical here. China is going to become the economic powerhouse of the world. But we can prosper beside them, like Europe has prospered beside us since the really big war. Trying to contain them won’t make the world better. Target can’t beat Amazon but it can prosper as its partner so both are fat and happy.

[Jspur]

2. Bannon is a pretty

stupid guy to believe that the rich would actually agree to a tax increase. That's one thing I really didn't understand about this guy was that he was down for increasing taxes for the rich but was still a republican. Then again I think Bannon believed it was possible to find racist republicans that were progressive when it came to taxes. I guess in a bizzaro world Bannon would be a democrat if racist democrats existed.

[applegrove]

3. I think he wanted to create a new movement that cut across the US. He obviously believed

racists made up more than 40 percent and needed a few economic liberals to top up his movement.

[haele]

7. That's because like most conservitive types, he is more comfortable in a small, controllable world.

As "savvy" about the world as he likes to pretend he is, he still only really associates with those of his own mindset, and everyone else is on the periphery of his experience.

So, like most self-segregationists, he can't really grok the reality that "everyone else" significantly outnumbers his own circle of society - it's very easy for him and his fellow travelers to actually believe they're a majority when at most, they might muster 5% of the population to rally around their cause for any length of time.


The curse of the liberal - that is, of those who don't give lip-service to causes - is that the liberal realizes the universe is huge and chaotic, with everyone creating their own ideas of where they fit in - and still wants to try and make it a better place for everyone to live in.

It's really easy to be a conservative. You just have to squint your eyes almost shut so you can't see anything further away than your nose and only pay attention to your immediate needs.

Haele

[democratisphere]

5. Like that 44% for the wealthy. Though still not high enough imo.

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[Thekaspervote]

8. Oh yes, never far from their piles of money

Despite all that wealth, it must be very confining, narrow, fearful etc. to live always concerned that it might go away. The mentality of scarcity!