I'll let the Sammy Davis Junior comment pass because he was quite the dancer, but his whole tone is bullshit, and his intent is bullshit, and Joe the Plumber is bullshit. He obviously thinks that achievement is a goal that deserves a prize, which makes him a moron. Achievement is the prize, and the fact that you'd be making two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is your prize. As a small business making that kind of cash your taxes go from 36 percent to 39 percent. This is abuse? Sure, you've giving away a hell of a lot of the money you made, but the sense of entitlement is just astounding.Joe the Plumber wrote:"I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question... for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question but I still got a tap dance... Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr," he said.
"When's he going to decide that $100,000 is too much, you know? I mean, you're on a slippery slope here. You vote on somebody who decides that $250,000 and you're rich? And $100,000 and you're rich? I mean, where does it end?" he added.
Secondly, Joe the Plumber doesn't know his mythological European folk heroes.
No, you blubbering rich ignoramus, he's calling you the greedy rich person. Because you are greedy rich person who doesn't want to pay his taxes and is complaining about how you would actually decide not to buy a business, and make more money, for fear of that more money being taxed more. Holy flying fuck, the logic astounds me. I find this reprehensible. Alright, you've got a business... which, through some arcane, eldritch process is a plumbing business that makes over a quarter million in profit. PROFIT. This is the overhead profit after things like payroll, insurance premiums, and business expenses like repair, maintenance and upkeep of tools, hardware, equipment and vehicles. Those things are deductions which, because they are deducted, generally allow a small business to be very profitable without actually netting the owner a quarter of a million dollars.Joe the Plumber wrote:"Robin Hood stole from greedy rich people and redistributed it to the peasants, so to speak, so if he's calling us peasants, I kind of resent that," he said.
Someone needs to tell Joe the Plumber that if he wants to become Joe the Businessesman that he needs to stop thinking like a peasent wanting to be a greedy rich person and start thinking like someone who knows what the fuck he's talking about. Joe, buy the business, and then buy a new truck. Bam! Deduction! Hire some employees, and get them all health insurance. More deductions plus a government kickback for hiring people! Now reinvest that 250k capital, otherwise known as your BMW Fund, into the business to make it grow. Instead of treating your business like some sort of funnel to suck money out of everyone else and into your pocket where it ceases to be at all useful, consider a business to be an investment opportunity and taxes as just another incentive to continually reinvest that capital outside of your worthless Joe T. Plumber bank account.
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- PeZook
