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Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - Filliam H. Muffman - 10-29-2008
Maybe Wurzelbacher got purged because of bad penmanship?
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1853246_1853243_1853233,00.html
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - MacGurl - 10-29-2008
Guhhh, what a big headache! :offair:
Kathy
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - karsen - 10-29-2008
This has been covered. Again, nothing about Joe the Plumber's life changes the validity of his question.
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - Filliam H. Muffman - 10-29-2008
It just looks so lame though when McCain kind of used him as a poster boy and he turned out to be a fail.
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - mattkime - 10-29-2008
>>Again, nothing about Joe the Plumber's life changes the validity of his question.
wait, he asked a valid question?
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - Black Landlord - 10-29-2008
karsen wrote:
This has been covered. Again, nothing about Joe the Plumber's life changes the validity of his question.
His question had the premise that Obama's plan would force the business he wanted to buy to pay increased taxes because it earned more than 250k, yet the truth was the business reported about 100k, and Joe is in no position to buy it.
It was a big stinking pile of dishonest doo-doo. No idea how you can defend it.
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - karsen - 10-29-2008
Black Landlord wrote:
[quote=karsen]
This has been covered. Again, nothing about Joe the Plumber's life changes the validity of his question.
His question had the premise that Obama's plan would force the business he wanted to buy to pay increased taxes because it earned more than 250k, yet the truth was the business reported about 100k, and Joe is in no position to buy it.
It was a big stinking pile of dishonest doo-doo. No idea how you can defend it.
Just because his situation was fictional doesn't mean the scenario he explained didn't apply to other people.
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - Black Landlord - 10-30-2008
Karsen, I'm not sure what your game is.
Joe the Plumber's "question" was "why should I pay more taxes when I buy this $250k+ earning business".
Obama answered him.
Just one of many random links:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4952909.ece
Obama took him at face value and answered him based on the assumption that the question was valid.
So what more do you want in terms of validating the question of "why should I pay more taxes if my business makes more than $250k?"
But if we're going to be technical (and why not) Joe's question was not valid.
He asked about his intended business making more than 250k. He did not present it as hypothetical, but as his own real life situation.
It wasn't. Not valid.
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - karsen - 10-30-2008
Did I say Obama didn't answer him?
Re: Joe the Plumber isn't registered to vote - Black Landlord - 10-30-2008
OK, you're absolutely right, Joe's non-registration is not new.