Your argument just doesn’t hold water. First, this

Regardless of what Obama, Ayers, and Wright have trained you to think (and no, I’m not throwing their names around lightly–all three have clearly socialist, redistribution of wealth agendas), neither earning nor having money is inherently bad.

is just plain junk. I doubt I have to point out to the less partisan readers why. Secondly, gaining money by fraud is not being particularly productive or contributing anything positive to any business. In addition making money by basically writing a form of financial fiction that turns out to weave a web so complex that absolutely no one understood it in the end only made for equally fictional profits that couldn’t be sustained. That is the nature of why everything really went boom as badly as it did, not just the bad mortgages themselves.

Alan Stewart Carl, a moderate blogger, opines about last night’s presidential debate: “I think Joe the Plumber [pictured] is going to be one of those quirky political moments we?ll all remember for years to come. But outside of his name being invoke…

Jake

Danno–Marietta GA

Joe CANT make 250,000 a year as a plumber. Thats my issue. I know full well no matter how hard I work, as a IT tech unless I know someone and manage a sweet CIO job at a multi-billion dollar company, there is no way I will make more than maybe 150,000 a year. Even my advisor with a multi-million dollar small business only brings home around 200,000. So to think that Joe the plumber or Sally the seamstress, or whoever is going to make what is far beyond upper middle class and actually into Upper Class territories insane.

And do you understand the concept of the Fair Tax? Do you understand that the US didn’t have an income tax until it was needed–gasp–to fund a war? And once Washington got a taste of that money, that power, they were instantly addicted. Do you understand that in the 1890s, the Supreme Court declared the income tax to be unconstitutional, but a vote by politicians turned it into an Amendment?

Folks, we are so far off the track with the concept of taxation that it’s scary.

Anyway, Ed, no, I don’t think a huge amount of people will think that way, but SOME will. Joe the Plumber seems to.

He thinks that there is some chance that he is going to make more than $250,000 in the future, so he is against raising taxes for that income level.

He is willing to throw away the guarantee of more money today (when he may not be doing so great, financially) for the slight chance of some tax savings in the future (when he would already be doing great, financially).

The odds overwhelmingly show that he won’t ever make $250,000. Only 2% of households do.

This is the same type of backwards thinking that created this financial crisis. Businesses get greedy and take risks even though they are already rich. Lower income people run up huge credit card debts, even though they know it will cost them more in the end.

Don’t be the Joe the Plumber, America. There are lots of unwealthy Americans out there who need help. Vote Obama.

1-The middle class voters accept that Obama will lower taxes on everyone making 250K.

2- These same middle class voters will be able to envision a future under Obama that allows them to increase their earnings to 250K+

3- Yet these same millions of struggling middle class voters, watching their retirement plans going down the drain, struggling to pay their bills, will penalize Obama and pre-empt their future prosperity, because they don’t want to pay a fairer share of the tax burden once they start making all that money.

The twisted logic of the right never ceases to amaze me.

Secondly, with his odd Sammy Davis Jr. tap-dancing comparison (why not use Fred Astair? Or Gene Kelly?) and his shaved head, I’m not certain that’s the face McCain wants on his campaign.

But McCain, since he has so little else, will probably try to exploit it.

Jake