Posted on 07/20/2022 9:10:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After putting a final spear through the heart of what remained of Biden’s and the Democrat’s domestic agenda, West Virginia’s Democratic senator Joe Manchin now rejects any tax increases on big corporations or the wealthy – until inflation is no longer a problem.
This is rich, in every sense of the word. Raising taxes on big American corporations and the wealthy would not fuel inflation. It would slow inflation by reducing demand – and do it in a way that wouldn’t hurt lower-income Americans (such as those living in, say, West Virginia).
Manchin’s state is one of the poorest in America. West Virginia ranks 45th in education, 47th in healthcare, 48th in overall prosperity and 50th in infrastructure.
Tax revenue from corporations and billionaires could be used to rebuild West Virginia, among other places that need investment around America.
But Manchin doesn’t seem to give a cluck. After all, the Democrats’ agenda – which Manchin has obliterated – included pre-K education, free community college, child subsidies, Medicare dental and vision benefits, paid family leave, elder care, and much else – all of enormous value to West Virginia. (On a per-person basis, West Virginians would have benefitted more than the residents of all but two other states.)
It’s not as if Manchin has championed anything else Democrats have sought. Remember Manchin’s “bipartisan compromise” on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act? Nothing came of it, of course.
Nothing has come of any of the fig leaves Manchin has conjured to cover his unrelenting opposition to every other Democratic goal.
Few if any American-based global corporations or billionaires reside in West Virginia, but lots of money flows to Manchin from corporations and billionaires residing elsewhere.
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Manchin has not only taken more campaign contributions from oil, gas and coal companies than any other senator (as well as dividends from his own coal company), he has one of the largest war chests from all big American corporations.
If the Democratic party had any capacity to discipline its lawmakers or hold them accountable (if pigs could fly), it would at least revoke Manchin’s chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
To continue to allow this crucial position to be occupied by the man who has single-handedly blocked one of the last opportunities to save the Earth is a thumb in the eye of the universe.
I’m told the Democrats don’t dare take this step for fear Manchin would leave the Democratic party and switch his allegiance to the Republicans.
Why exactly would this be so terrible? Manchin already acts like a Republican.
50/50 becomes 49/50? Oh noes.
What happened to “reaching across the aisle?”
It is time for Senator Manchin to become a Republican!
JUST DO IT, SENATOR!
How on earth does this idiot have an economics degree?
Reich has one of the worst cases of “little man syndrome” I have ever seen. And, his relentless banging away along Dem party line tropes seems to be empowering.
Poor little jerk.
He’s a mental midget?
Reich needs a booster seat to see the aisle.
Manchin lost me by voting for the gun bill, just like Sinema did. Whatever good he provides is fine, but I’m not a fan.
Reich reminds me of Bill Krystol. They were decent guys in the nineties and became surly maniacs as they aged.
Be gone Shorty, you have no power here.
Great idea.....Senator, Joe Manchin.......become a Republican today & help save our great nation Republic from being destroyed by Low Life Democrats, Fake, POTUS, Joe “Criminal” Biden and his corrupt Democrat “Hate America” Political Party!!!
RE: How on earth does this idiot have an economics degree?
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND OF ROBERT REICCCCCCCCHHHHH:
Reich received a National Merit Scholarship and attended Dartmouth College, graduating with an A.B. summa cum laude in 1968 and winning a Rhodes Scholarship to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University College, Oxford.
Reich subsequently earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. At Yale, he was classmates with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas, Michael Medved, and Richard Blumenthal.
From 1980 until 1992, Reich taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he wrote a series of influential books and articles.
Shorted in the common sense department.
Why exactly would this be so terrible? Manchin already acts like a Republican.
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Doesn’t even come close to making up for the number of Assistant Democrats in R jerseys.
NINETEEN of them voted for the Biden Boondoggle Bill.
Some of the same ones who voted for the gun control bill.
We’d like to kick Collins, Murkowski and Romney out, too.
Can we trade Manchin for a couple of the usual suspect RINOs we don’t like?
Tyrion’s idea of economics is only by making everything unaffordable can you make the masses entirely dependent on da gubmint.
They were never decent guys, they have always been in favor of flooding the country with foreigners in order to steal the country from the citizens.
No, it’s time to kick the Democratic party out of the Democratic party.
The new party is full-bore anti-American communist, unlike the old party that had at least some love for the USA as founded.
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