“Joe the Plumber” is a Republican man from Holland, Ohio who asked Barack Obama why he wanted to raise his taxes in the event that he bought the plumbing business he worked for. Obama explained that there are all kinds of different taxes applied to small businesses, and he wants to do what he can to protect and support small businesses while keeping with his plan to roll back the Bush tax cuts for people who make more than $250,000 a year.
John McCain turned this moment into an accusation in the third presidential debate that Obama didn’t care about plumbers. So the news media thought it would be cute to go meet and interview Joe, who it turns out is not, in fact, a sweet little undecided voter.
No, Joe says he has known who he’s going to vote for “for a long time now” — and it’s got nothing to do with Taxes:
Joe the Plumber is a Republican for McCain, who does not make over $250,000, and nor will his small business, and he has no immediate plans to buy that small business. He was looking for a “gotcha” moment on that ’socialist’ Obama, and boy, did he ever get one. He said the following to his local news station:
- Obama “talks nice,” but Joe the Plumber doesn’t trust him.
- John McCain is a war hero, and that’s the only thing that matters.
- He doesn’t want America to turn into a “Socialist” country (read: Obama is an icky radical).
- Joe the Plumber doesn’t have immediate plans to buy any businesses, and those businesses he wants to buy don’t make over $250,000, and even if they did, they wouldn’t be hit with the same tax plan as individuals, but one day, Joe the Plumber “hopes” to eventually make over $250,000 a year.
Hey, Joe, me too! I also hope to marry an underwear model and cure some diseases. But, until that happens, let’s just keep repeating that John McCain is a war hero and that’s why he’s the best candidate.
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