[lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American?

[John Thornton]

shag wrote:
> At 06:51 PM 10/16/2008, Sean Andrews wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:11 AM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > About this new "Joe the Plumber" crap:
>> >
>> > I'm very interested in the specific details of a) whether Joe the 
>> Plumber works "10 to 12 hours per day [sic]," b) as "a plumber," and 
>> c) because of this, in the current economy, can buy a business worth 
>> OVER a quarter of a million dollars.
>>
>> It gets better...according to Bloomberg, he really doesn't like to pay
>> taxes--so much so that he owes the state of Ohio $1,200 in back taxes.
>>  Also, they point out that, under Obama's plan, he would pay...wait
>> for it...$900 more for his estimated $280,000 business.  And this,
>> evidently, is enough to push him over the edge so that he would be
>> unable to purchase that business.
>>
>> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aWDHvDjnDnTs&refer=home 
>>
>>
>> also, according to the NYT, he isn't a licensed plumber
>>
>> http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/
>>
>> and there is speculation about him being related to someone implicated
>> in the Keating trails, though that seems even too pedestrian and
>> stupid for the McCain campaign.
>>
>> -s
>
>
> well, he is probably too stupid to run his own business because the 
> moron seems to have conflated _income_ with a business's gross 
> receipts. Joe said himself that:
>
> ""I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a 
> year," he told Mr. Obama during an exchange that was filmed and later 
> showed up on YouTube. "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, 
> isn't it?" " 

Who's dumber Joe or McCain?
Is the best support McCain can dredge up a plumber with no license, who 
lies about having union membership and is also a tax evading wife beater?
Does McCain just run with people like Palin and Joe without doing any 
background checks on them?

John Thornton