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On the recordAugust 2, 2022
I cannot get their vote because they won`t change opinions of tax codes. If they believe that 15 percent should not be the minimum, and corporations shouldn`t pay anything and America, that the largest have a billion dollars of revenue a year, and won`t pay anything, I can`t convince them to change that.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia
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msnbc.com

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Manchin discusses the difficulty of convincing Republican senators to change their stance on tax codes.

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