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Joe Biden vs. Joe the Plumber
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Posted on 10/16/2008 7:10:58 AM PDT by hope

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To: hope

Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that a sitting Senator, running for VP of the nation, is disrespecting a citizen whose only fault was to voice his concerns about the party platform?

And these people want the small business vote and the vote of the working man? I hope every blue collar Dim sees this crap and votes for McCain. With any luck, they will have been registered by ACORN and can vote for McCain twice.


41 posted on 10/16/2008 7:57:41 AM PDT by radiohead (The hypocritcal Left - attacking a woman for being what they said women should be.)
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To: radiohead
With any luck, they will have been registered by ACORN and can vote for McCain twice.

oh, what a deliciously devious mind you have!

42 posted on 10/16/2008 7:59:42 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Genoa

Doh! Thanks!
It appears I forgot to check my normal news sites this a.m.


43 posted on 10/16/2008 7:59:55 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Regarding crimes committed by Mahoney, what did Emmanual and Pelosi know and when did they know it?)
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To: hope

Biden is parsing words. We are talking about a plumming BUSINESS, not an individual plummer; he is trying to change the topic.

BACK OF THE ENVELOP MATH:

Even a part-time plummer charges $50 an hour, which over 20 hours a week and over 50 weeks/year is

$50 * 20 * 50 = $50K

250K would be a modest 5 plummer business servicing a small community of people.

Obamas taxes are gonna hit Joe hard, real hard.


44 posted on 10/16/2008 8:12:09 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you torture the data long enough, it will confess, even to crimes it did not commit")
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To: hope
Biden says he doesn’t know any plumber’s who make 250k. Nor does he know any store owner, cop yada, yada, yada! Folks, in business 250k a year is nothing when you cosider what you have to pay in unemployment ins., workmans comp and other things that a business has to deal with...

Well it depends on whether Biden is talking about a plumber working for someone else or a person who owns a plumbing business.He also mentions police,since when is a cop a business? A guy I went to school with has a plumbing business, he is nearing retirement now and hires about 5 people to work for him. He was making over 250,000 years ago. Bozo picked this 250,000 number out of his butt, I would wager that the average small business in the US makes a lot more than 250,000.

45 posted on 10/16/2008 8:18:24 AM PDT by calex59
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To: BibChr

No kidding. Win or lose, Obama’s goons are going to come after this guy. Compared to Obama’s goons, Clinton’s goons look like pikers.


46 posted on 10/16/2008 8:21:42 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Riodacat
I believe the $250K not "gross" income but is net "taxable" income (e.g. $250K after all the expenses and deductions for U.I., workmans comp and "other things that a business has to deal with").

I am sorry but you believe wrong. Bozo has never clarified whether he is talking about gross or net. As Rush said when someone asked him that question "You are asking the wrong guy, ask Obama he has never said one way or another".

47 posted on 10/16/2008 8:26:40 AM PDT by calex59
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To: hope
And if Obama wins, they'll LITERALLY be taking shots at Joe.
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48 posted on 10/16/2008 8:29:33 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: hope
These people(liberals)are not to be believed. They are acting as if Joe the plumber deliberately forced Bozo to say he was going to tax him and somehow it is his fault that Bozo said what he did. I hope every small business owner in the states saw Biden say this sh** or sees it in the next several days. This is a winning issue and if McCain doesn't keep hammering it he is a fool.

A sitting senator running for VP is slamming a ordinary citizen who wants to buy a business and questioning his "credibility". Typical communist behavior, divert the problem onto someone else, it is never the liberals fault.

49 posted on 10/16/2008 8:33:25 AM PDT by calex59
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To: The South Texan

Biden, like most of the liberal/left/Democrat Party elite, just cannot accept the fact that there are millions of “Joe the Plumbers” throughout America ... and they vote!


50 posted on 10/16/2008 8:35:43 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Proud2BeRight

The plumber makes sense. The senator Joe has no sense.


51 posted on 10/16/2008 8:37:14 AM PDT by usslsm51
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To: hope
Hey. Don't forget me. I taught Biden everything he knows. There's one thing I still know about Joe.


52 posted on 10/16/2008 8:47:35 AM PDT by kinghorse (Idiocracy has arrived)
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To: hope

I don’t know about you guys but this story could cost Obama a lot of votes if it gets out there. One thing you NEVER do is question the credibility of average working people. Joe the Plumber is not rich by any stretch of the imagination. It proves, with a face and a voice, what we have been complaining about when it comes to O’s tax plan. Also, we can ask anyone in any major city how far 250k gets them. Small businesses will suffer greatly under this tax plan. The money will go to employees of companies like the ones being taxed. You think wages are low now? Where do you think those businesses will re-coup their higher taxes. Obama and crew are just plain stupid.

I wouldn’t mind seeing this post in Breaking News.


53 posted on 10/16/2008 8:54:40 AM PDT by rtsimon
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To: hope

I don’t know about you guys but this story could cost Obama a lot of votes if it gets out there. One thing you NEVER do is question the credibility of average working people. Joe the Plumber is not rich by any stretch of the imagination. It proves, with a face and a voice, what we have been complaining about when it comes to O’s tax plan. Also, we can ask anyone in any major city how far 250k gets them. Small businesses will suffer greatly under this tax plan. The money will go to employees of companies like the ones being taxed. You think wages are low now? Where do you think those businesses will re-coup their higher taxes. Obama and crew are just plain stupid.

I wouldn’t mind seeing this post in Breaking News.


54 posted on 10/16/2008 8:54:43 AM PDT by rtsimon
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To: mabelkitty

Tell me about it. We have to pay taxes on file cabinets that are over 20 years old.....year after year after year. Taxes on everything we use for the business.


55 posted on 10/16/2008 9:31:18 AM PDT by RC2
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To: calex59
"I am sorry but you believe wrong. Bozo has never clarified whether he is talking about gross or net. As Rush said when someone asked him that question "You are asking the wrong guy, ask Obama he has never said one way or another".

You're right, he's never clarified it. Even if it was on a net basis, at 39% taxable income that is $97,500! So you end up with a little over 150k...Seems like a lot of money to many, huh?..I can tell you a small company like what Joe wants is a 24/7 operation...You live it and breath it...When you consider what the cost of living is in some states like Cali or New York...it's not that great. NOT TO MENTION IT'S GROSSLY UNFAIR! Pure and simple...SOCIALISM!

56 posted on 10/16/2008 10:30:26 AM PDT by hope (the socialist msm result is mind-numb O-bots)
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To: Riodacat
Just now on Fox the Obamanite just admitted Bambi's tax plan is based on gross income...
57 posted on 10/18/2008 1:12:26 PM PDT by hope (the socialist msm result is mind-numb O-bots)
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To: hope
I haven't seen it yet, but I find it hard to believe.
That would be totally insane...
58 posted on 10/18/2008 1:30:27 PM PDT by Riodacat (Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.)
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