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The Democratic Party’s Drubbing of Joe the Plumber

October 19, 2008 - 12:05 am - by Ruben Navarrette Jr.
harry
2008-10-19 14:38:48

Re: Post “37.
BC your knee jerk leftist response is amazing.
What’s the difference what Joe is or who he is and what he makes. He asked a legitimate question to a man running for President, and he got an answer which you couldn’t handle so you go into a frenzy by demonizing Joe. If you want to hear bastard questions then tune in to the six o’clock news when they ask anyone not fitting their agenda. It is so disgustingly perverted as to make one puke.
Government, especially the democrats, believe business owners have money trees growing out of their back yards. They tax tax tax and fee fee fee businesses to death. So now Obama says that is not enough! I will give away your hard working money to those under you. Obama forgets about the responsibilities involved in owning a business. Let’s examine them shall we?
There’s rent, payroll, payroll taxes paid by the employer for each employee, unemployment tax, utilities, insurance, health insurance, union dues where applicable, sales tax, and a host of fees just for doing business, plus other assorted overhead and taxes. And then there’s state and local taxes too. Before a businessman can earn a dime he must pay all of these first. And what responsibilities does the employee have? Just getting his ass to work and having taxes taken out of his paycheck. Office rent, heat, A/C, sanitation, maintenance, mortgages are not his responsibility. Now can you see how utterly pathetic Obama’s answer is? Obama I paid my employees and my taxes but you want to punish me some more? Screw you. And the media who should have stomped on Obama’s lame answer castigated the average Joe instead, how pathetic.