Commentary Negotiations are reportedly not going well between the Biden administration and Joe Manchin, the swing Democrat in the 50-50 U.S. Senate who will likely decide the fate of the president’s Build Back Better bill, calculated to cost $5 trillion. Manchin’s stated concerns have focused on the extent of the bill’s spending at a time of growing, stubborn inflation, but the specifics of the legislation as it now stands are riddled with objectionable provisions. They range from imposing the highest taxes since Jimmy Carter, including an anti-entrepreneurship capital gains tax rate of 37 percent, to new cradle-to-grave entitlements extending the federal government’s reach into child-rearing, to welfare designed to prop up unprofitable left-wing media. That’s just a taste of what’s in the bill. One of its most egregious features is a $2.5 billion handout to trial lawyers, and it may be here where we will discover whether Manchin is really …