“We’ve been working on these issues for quite some time,” he said Wednesday. “The majority leader will make the decision specifically on what comes next, but he and the president know that I have tax proposals that we’re fine-tuning and honing in the Senate that are very much in sync with what the president has been talking about.”
“My approach to legislating is to not front-run my colleagues,” he said. “I think the broad kind of framework has been pretty clear. I think we have two tax systems in America. I want one that gives everybody a chance to get ahead.”
Democrats hesitant to raise taxes amid pandemic
In a webinar on Wednesday, Manchin also expressed concern with the nation’s debt level and touted the importance of infrastructure.
He told American Council for Capital Formation President and CEO Mark Bloomfield that the U.S. “is closing quickly on $28 trillion in national debt. … We are going to have to pay for whatever we do.”
“Sooner or later, we’ve got to pay,” Manchin added, “Nobody likes taxes, I know that. Well, if you like your water and your sewer and your road and everything you receive and the food and all the amenities you have in life, maybe you better figure out how we’re going to be able to do it.”
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