Joe Biden Attacks Joe Wurzelbacher, Small Businesses And Middle America

It was pretty clear that Barack Obama was on the defensive last night and one of the most powerful hits he took was his exchange with Joe Wurzelbacher about “spreading the wealth around.” Well, Joe has now become “Joe the Plumber” and is a national celebrity, whether he wants to be or not. (I don’t think that was his intention.)

In fact, Joe the Plumber has become such a rallying cry that the Obama campaign has sent out Joe Biden to attack him. But Biden doesn’t realize the symbolism he is attacking nor does he realize who he is attacking. Attacking Joe the Plumber is like attacking the working class. It is like attacking small businesses. It is an attack on middle America.

Here is what Biden said:

“John [McCain] continues to cling to the notion of this guy Joe the plumber,” Biden said on NBC’s “Today” show. “I don’t have any ‘Joe the Plumbers’ in my neighborhood that make $250,000 a year.” “The ‘Joe the Plumbers’ in my neighborhood, the ‘Joe the Cops’ in my neighborhood, the ‘Joe the Grocery Store Owners’ in my neighborhood, they make, like 98 percent of the small businesses, less than $250,000 a year.”

But what Joe Biden said about 98% of small businesses making less than $250,000 is a lie. Even Barack Obama’s assertion that less that 95% of small businesses making less than $250,000 a year is a lie.

The IRS Statistics of Income Bulletin clearly shows that over two-thirds of small businesses make over $250,000 per year. That’s 66%, not the 5% that Obama claims nor the 2% that Biden claims.

According to Americans for Tax Reform, other factors of the Obama Tax Plan will be significant as well. For instance, the tax rate on the majority of small businesses will go to 54.9% (39.6% individual and 15.3% Social Security/Medicare; add them together) and this would be the highest since the Carter Administration, the results of which gave us double-digit inflation and unemployment.

And what kind of small businesses will be affected? Look here: U.S. Small Business Administration – Table Of Small Business Size Standards. You’d be surprised at who is going to be paying those higher taxes.

When these taxes are enacted by a President Obama with a Democrat-controlled rubber-stamp Congress, 116 million jobs will be put at risk.

That is going to be one of the worst all-out assaults the socialists have waged against the working class. And Joe Biden, by attacking Joe Wurzelbacher has sounded the clarion call.

You can access the video of Joe Biden on-line here:

Video Of Joe Biden Attacking Joe Wurzelbacher
YouTube.com
October 16, 2008

Joe Wurzelbacher: The New Symbol Of American Small Business

ABC‘s Teddy Davis has a report about Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber who asked Barack Obama about taxing small businesses, and the plumber’s views on those taxes. Joe has come to symbolize the small business in America and the frustration small businesses deal with when having to face government bureaucarcy and tax laws.

Here is a recap of the exchange between Joe and Obama:

“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.”"It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

In a moment of unscripted speech, Barack Obama let slip that he is, in fact, a socialist and wants to redistribute America’s wealth by taking money away from those who worked to earn it and giving it to those who did not work to earn it.

Thus, it is completely understandable why Joe Wurzelbacher is so infuriated. Here is what he said on Nightline:

“To be honest with you, that infuriates me,” plumber Joe Wurzelbacher told Nightline’s Terry Moran. “It’s not right for someone to decide you made too much—that you’ve done too good and now we’re going to take some of it back.”"That’s just completely wrong,” he added. Wurzelbacher, who says no one from the McCain campaign got in touch with him before Wednesday, was a centerpiece of the third and final presidential debate.

And a majority of small businesses across the American landscape feel the same. Why work to succeed and grow if the government is going to come in and confiscate your earnings? Barack Obama’s tax plan would effectively put a roof on how large a business can get, which in turn, also limits how many people a business can employ and how much those employees can get paid.

Joe was trying to make Barack Obama aware of this, but socialists don’t listen to such rational arguments.

Now, some libs in the media are starting to parse words and argue semantics over who would get taxed for how much, but they completely miss the relevent point that the Obama plan is still a socialist tax increase that will have devastating effects on our economy.

You can access the complete article on-line here:

Joe The Plumber: Obama Tax Plan ‘Infuriates Me’
Teddy Davis
ABC News
October 16, 2008