And he sings a tune a LOT of Democrats want to hear….
Roll Back the tax giveaways Trump and Republicans passed in 2017. to pay for the bill’s program’s…
Joe Manchin just said something that has to be making Progressives HAPPY….
And Republicans and the American Rich NOT so happy….
The Biden people are making sure to throw in incentives for as many US Senate votes as they can get in the THREE Trillion dollar next Bill President Biden has lined up….
Sen. Joe Manchin said Wednesday that he favors a large infrastructure package that would be paid for in part by raising tax revenues — a point of contention between the two parties.
“I’m sure of one thing: It’s going to be enormous,” the West Virginia Democrat, who is seen as a swing vote in a chamber divided 50-50, told reporters at the Capitol.
While he didn’t predict a price tag, Manchin said Congress should do “everything we possibly can” to pay for it. He said there should be “tax adjustments” to former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law to boost revenues, including by raising the corporate rate from the current 21 percent to at least 25 percent.
The tax benefits in the Republican law were “weighted in one direction to the upper end,” Manchin said. He also suggested an “infrastructure bank” paid for with revenues, potentially a value-added tax, that would be used for “rebuilding America.”
“I’m not afraid to look at other things,” he said…..
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Notably, Manchin said the Republican resistance to higher taxes was not a “reasonable” position in an infrastructure negotiation.
“Where do they think it’s going to come from?” he asked. “How are you going to fix America?”
Manchin’s position on taxes signals a significant division between the two parties that could nudge Democrats to pursue the same budget reconciliation process that they used for Covid-19 relief to pass an infrastructure bill if they cannot reach common ground with Republicans on how to finance it.
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Robert Byrd (unlike the very-distantly-related Byrds of Virginia) was certainly no enemy of large federal projects.
I agree with Manchin on this. Go big. Spend big to make the lives of rural Americans better. And make sure it’s known far and wide that not a single damn Republican supported doing so.
If the West Virginia Senator is on board?
Biden is good out of the gate….
Manchin wants to pay for infrastructure with higher taxes on the wealthy and an increase in corporate taxes. Which shows as conservative Democrat as he may be he will NEVER be a Republican.
True THAT Scott….
So what would Joe Manchin have against poor, oppressed, little Don Blankenship — who’s done so much for the Mountain
State?
Send him to the poorhouse and think of all those non-union jobs you’ll eliminate.