Democratic Senator Issued Shocking Statements About 1%ers Protecting Their Wealth at Oligarch Confab [View all]

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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) earlier this month urged the business class to band together and influence politics because their collective success means they “have an outsized ability to affect what happens in Washington.”

“If you don’t think the frustration of Americans with our overall system—not just our political system, but our business system, our tax code—is at the boiling point, then Katie, bar the door!” Warner said. “The walls that are gonna have to be built, may not be at borders, they may be around neighborhoods the way they are in many Third World countries around the world.”

Speaking on a panel at the Milken Institute’s 2016 Global Conference, Warner—who, as a member of the bipartisan Gang of Six, dedicated a significant amount of his time advocating for a deficit-reduction plan that cut the corporate tax rate and curbed entitlement—bemoaned the failure of the “Grand Bargain,” a controversial plan that would have cut spending for Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

“We’d have gotten 70 votes if the establishments on both sides had not shot down our effort,” Warner said.

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