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By
NICK GOSNELL <a href="https://hutchpost.com">Hutch
Post</a>
HUTCHINSON — Kansas First District Congressman Tracey Mann says the optics of 
Wednesday night's speech by President Joe Biden did not send the right 
message to the country."Everyone in Congress that wants to be 
vaccinated has been," Mann said. "Everybody sitting six feet apart, that
 image is not what we want to portray to America. It's time to get 
through this pandemic. It's time to take the masks off. It is time to 
move forward, return to regular orders in the Congress."Mann sees the pandemic as the pretext for expansion of government."We've
 seen that accelerated the last four months, the last 100 days of the 
Biden administration," Mann said. "First off was the American Rescue 
Plan, which was $1.9 trillion. Only nine percent went to actual COVID 
health relief. The rest went to other things. Money we don't have, 
spending it on things we don't need. Then, a more than $2 trillion 
infrastructure proposal, then last night, the American Families Plan, 
another $2 trillion. That totals $6 trillion on top of the almost $30 
trillion in debt we already have."The plan is being touted as only having an effect on those with high incomes, over $400,000 a year."This
 is the largest tax increase proposed in a generation," Mann said. "It's
 very concerning, because it will affect everybody. It has to. Most of 
those folks employ other people. This notion that it's going to impact a
 few but not everybody else, is just simply not true. The corporate tax 
rate as proposed would be higher than communist China."Mann 
believes there is a good chance that Republicans could retake the House 
in 2022, because he says the country doesn't want to see this expansive 
growth of government. That would leave a very small window for Biden's 
agenda to get through Congress at all.Below is the interview with Congressman Mann in its entirety...<div><iframe title="April 29, 2021 Congressman Tracey Mann" style="border: none;" scrolling="no" data-name="pb-iframe-player" src="https://www.podbean.com/player-v2/?i=bmnae-10215c3-pb&from=pb6admin&download=1&share=1&download=1&rtl=0&fonts=Arial&skin=1&btn-skin=7" allowfullscreen="" width="100%" height="150"></iframe></div>

🎙 Mann: Biden's expansion of government 'will affect everybody'