Does Joe the Plumber know Joe Six-Pack? - Reuters

[steve2470]

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/15/does-joe-the-plumber-know-joe-six-pack/

all about Joe the Plumber, seriously lol

Joe the Plumber was the surprise star of the third and final presidential debate, getting no less than 13 mentions in the opening minutes.

So who is this guy? His full name is Joe Wurzelbacher, and it turns out he had a close encounter with Barack Obama a few days ago. John McCain adopted Joe’s cause as a way to tar his opponent as a tax-and-spend liberal.

The apparent problem is that Joe is about to buy a company that makes a little over $250,000 a year, and under Obama’s proposal that would put him into a higher tax bracket. Obama told Joe that he wasn’t trying to punish his success, only to spread the wealth around.

“Joe wants to buy the business that he has been in for all of these years, worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes,” McCain said.

more at link above

[steve2470]

1. bump nt

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2. McCain's definition of "much higher taxes" doesn't match mine

McCain thinks it is fine to raise everybody's taxable income by taxing health benefits, but he is concerned about Joe paying an extra grand of taxes under Obama's plan?! For a guy with an adjusted gross income of $280k a year, Obama's plan sounds like it would increase his taxes by about 0.4%. That's not "much higher" by any definition. Inflation is a much bigger issue than that.