Joe the Plumber-Unamerican

How dare the plumber that has come to be known as "Joe the Plumber" dare to ask Obama a question about his taxes. Especially when Obama does not have access to a teleprompter to guide him through the answer. Now that is un-American. So now the liberal media and Obama & Biden's campaigns are searching through Joe's history including tax records to find out anything they can use against him to discredit him. Ridiculous! After Obama is President will Joe just disappear never to be seen by friends and family again? It is not un-American to ask questions of our politicians no matter what party we belong to. As Americans, we should always question anyone and everyone's motives for doing something that will affect us--especially if it involves our money.

Who cares who Joe is? Does it matter whether he is Republican, Democrat or Communist? No. The only thing that really matters is Obama's answer of "spread the wealth around". That's it. That is the basis of his plan--socialism! What incentive is there for anyone to work hard if they are going to be taxed so their hard-earned money can be given to someone who does not want to work at all. Under his system, I think I'll just quit working and let someone else do a job to pay me.

Another thing the press has been misleading everyone about is the $250,000 cut off. Obama says that the $250,000 is from sales receipts. That is, gross income--not net income, but GROSS. You may gross $300,000 but only net $6000 after payroll, overhead, supplies, etc. Can you afford to pay an extra tax out of that $6000--I don't think so and still be in business.

So, what is going to happen is this. Small businesses will fail thus laying off more people. Large businesses will remain but will have to cut staff (more unemployment) and raise prices (higher inflation). Some people will not work at all because they will getting paid for doing nothing any way (remember that Obama has 95% of Americans will receive a tax cut, but 42% don't pay any taxes at all. so they will be getting somebody else's money). This will be worse than the Great Depression and leads to a socialist society, and we all know how well that worked for people of the Soviet Union.

John McCain says, "Why would you want to raise taxes on anybody right now?" Why would you? When the economy is in crisis and you are trying to stimulate growth, you don't raise taxes, you lower them so people have more money in their pockets to spend.

I am not an economist, but all of this is common sense, and unfortunately America has lost its common sense. Like P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Well America, the country has become the sucker and we are about to get shafted. May we should start learning Russian, or better yet, the Koran because our freedom is doomed and Obama is leading the way.