Populist of the worst kind. |
Ryan Lizza, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker who published his conversation with Anthony Scaramucci that got the Mooch fired, writes:
One idea [Bannon] has floated inside the White House is creating a new, higher tax rate, perhaps for income over a million dollars. He believes that the secret to sell it is to convince the President that raising taxes is a political winner. Bannon has become friends with Gerald Butts, a longtime political adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. They met in New York during the transition and now talk regularly. Bannon sees Butts as a sort of left-wing version of himself. Last year, as the Prime Minister’s popularity was in decline, Trudeau pushed through a tax hike on the rich, and it helped him rebound...This is pure Marxist hatred of the upper-class, a favorite crowd-pleasing hate fueled by current day statist-populist leaders, left and right
“There’s nothing better for a populist than a rich guy raising taxes on rich guys,” Butts told Bannon.
-RW
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