As many of you doubtless already know, the guy who confronted Obama over tax policies may have a few skeletons in his closet (failure to pay taxes and trouble with a medical bill, failure to get a plumbing license when that is apparently required to do his job). <\/p>\n
That’s not nearly as interesting to me as some of the misleading information about him. He is a registered republican. Not sure if he ever said he was undecided, but people sure got that impression somehow. He said his plumbing business would rake in over 250k\/year. It doesn’t and it wouldn’t. Turns out he makes a whole lot less than that, and would be, if I understand correctly, taxed less under Obama’s plan than McCain’s plan. Heh, whoops. Dumbass.<\/p>\n
(http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/17\/us\/politics\/17joe.html)<\/p>\n
Gotta love the mythical everyday joe making 250k a year, who can’t afford to pay 3% more on the extra back to the society that helps the business thrive. My dad is a physician, who owns two offices, works well over 40 hours\/week and he doesn’t make half that. Puh-leez.<\/p>\n
For some reason this reminds me of a post on White Privilege<\/a> mentioned by As many of you doubtless already know, the guy who confronted Obama over tax policies may have a few skeletons in his closet (failure to pay taxes and trouble with a medical bill, failure to get a plumbing license when that is apparently required to do his job). That’s not nearly as interesting to me … Continue reading “Joe the plumber”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}