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Posted on 10/16/2008 9:12:03 AM PDT by mojito
Leave it to an Ohio plumber named Joe Wertzelbacher to make the case on taxes on small businesses clearer, more succinctly, and better than John McCain has:
ABC's "Good Morning America" October 16, 2008
ABC's Diane Sawyer: "Well I just want to ask you now about the issue that was raised because it's been a little confusing to me as I tried to sort it out here. To get straight here, you're not taking home $250,000 now, am I right?"
Joe Wurzelbacher: "No. No. Not even close."
Sawyer: "And you were you asking — about the prospect, the hope that someday you would make $250,000, and you were saying you didn't want that to be taxed?"
Wurzelbacher: "Well, exactly. Exactly. I mean not that I don't want to be taxed. You have to be taxed. But to — just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. You know as opposed to other people. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?"
Sawyer: "Well if people making $250,000 should not be taxed additionally — by the way, it's 3% from 36% to 39% under Senator Obama's plan. If those people should not be taxed additionally, even though they're in the top 5% of America, what about people who make $1 million? Or $5 million?"
Wurzelbacher: "Well, I mean, quite honestly, why should they be penalized for being successful. I mean, that's what you're telling me. That's what it sounds like you're saying. That's wrong. Because you're successful, you have to pay more than everybody else? We all live in this country. It's a basic right. And Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it, is what it comes down to. That's a very socialist view and it's incredibly wrong. I mean, $250,000 now. What if he decides, well you know $150,000, you're pretty rich too. Let's go ahead and lower it again. You know it's a slippery slope. When's it going to stop?"
Whatever the outcome of this election, Wurzelbacher is making sure the country knows what it is getting into when if it says "okey-dokey" to Obama's tax plan. For this he deserves our salutes. If Wurzelbacher keeps this up, maybe the GOP ought to run Palin-Wurzelbacher in 2012.
I just sent an e-mail to Christian Pinkston who was in charge of the Ayers/Obama ad financed by wealthy Texan Harold Simmons, suggesting that they do a Joe The Plumber ad.
Notice Joe is from Ohio. I hope that makes a difference.
McCain should also have said last night,,,
"THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU DEMOCRATS AND US REPUBLICANS. YOU WANT TO SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND.
WE WANT TO CREATE ADDITIONAL WEALTH"!
End of story.
Great!
Hey Dianne, want to see a Plumber lay some pipe?
He did say something like that.
"THAT IS THE BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU DEMOCRATS AND US REPUBLICANS. YOU WANT TO SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND.
WE WANT TO CREATE ADDITIONAL WEALTH FOR EVERYONE"!
Good Line there stockstrader!
Thats an Ohio guy for ya.
You just got to love Joe the Plumber.
Ayers? nope. Rezko? nope. Odinga? nope. Wright? nope.
MSM? nope.
Joe the plumber? Yep.
One plumber is going to change this election. Maybe that sounds crazy, but I really think that.
That one is going in the Truck window! Thanks!
Thats cause Joe IS us.
He gets it, and he isn’t alone.
Just printed this out to put on my car..........ahhhhhhhh
what are my chances of Not being attacked...?!??!!??
I love this. My husband and I own a Drywall Business so he could be talking for us and all the home builders who employ us and all the trades we work with. It’s great. Keep it up Joe and don’t give up trying to better yourself and your family no matter what.
Joe rocks. He is like Sarah - average folks with common sense and a love of America. They are not like cop killer Ayers or nasty Indonesian/Kenyan citizen con-artists.
This silent majority is fed up with these ruling elites/criminals like Murtha who calls OUR Marines murderers then calls people in W PA a bunch of racists.
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