the plant. he over saw legislation that designated waste coal as an alternative energy. years later manchin helped fight off attempts by the obama administration to regulate coal ash a toxic byproduct of waste coal and surprise, surprise, he used the infrastructure bill to increase federal funding for clearing abandoned mine sites of waste, the type of work that s performed by his company. now run by his son. this while holding up president biden s legislation that would help transition the u.s. away from dirty energy, which is absolutely necessary toed address the climate crisis and while manchin made gobs of money off his dirty gob getting a check from his son s company for almost $500,000 in 2020 he cost his constituents money with a rate increase for the plant driving up electricity costs for west virginians. and those constituents aren t just struggling financially. help impact reports produced by
those loopholes and changing the tax code. you know, i think since he s made such an issue with this, i do hope he pays all of his secretaries taxes. they ve become tools in this conversation. i m not saying this facetiously, you worked hard your whole life, sold your company, and made gobs and gobs of money. can you explain to people out there and i don t even understand this. can you explain how the super rich like warren buffett and others, can you explain of what so much of your business does is geared toward not paying the 35% tax rate that people who make $250,000 not all businesses are geared that way. it s just investment income basically non-working income that so many of the wealthiest is taxed differently. i don t think you can but donny, it s not just that if you buy a private jet this year, there are so many scams out there. by the way, the president