Blondie, you and Hemp must read the same nutjob blogs.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/16/123539/11/77/632515
Joe the Plumber
by BurnTheShips 108 Replies latest social current
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SixofNine
"Like I said, the media is vetting a plumber more thoroughly this week than they have the candidate for the presidency over the past 6 months."
And said drama queen plumber has done more press availability in 24 hours than Sarah Palin has done in 6 weeks.
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snowbird
John Sidney McCain III is an old fool.
Why in the world would he latch on to something like that and make himself look so bad?
No plumber makes $250k, even I know that!
So, what wealth would there be for spreading around? I'm fairly intelligent, but I confess McCain lost me on that one.
Sylvia
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blondie
BTS, just making the citation more accessible. Never read it. You could try being a little more polite about things.
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hemp lover
Thanks for hyperlinking, Blondie!
"Like I said, the media is vetting a plumber more thoroughly this week than they have the candidate for the presidency over the past 6 months." Yes, the media has done waaaaaay more stories on Joe the Plumber who we all met yesterday than they have on Barack Obama since 2004. Do you really believe the shit you post?
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BurnTheShips
And said drama queen plumber has done more press availability in 24 hours than Sarah Palin has done in 6 weeks.
Well that is just bullshit. The media is starting to "Palin" Joe the Plumber. They went after Bristol, Trig. Go for it.
BTS
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brinjen
LOL. So he registered with a political party because he didn't understand what they stood for and now he's a political expert? Sounds so much like a politician.
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dawg
You might as well Burn that ship, if not it will damn well sink...
You said..
"Like I said, the media is vetting a plumber more thoroughly this week than they have the candidate for the presidency over the past 6 months"
And they should vet him, he's a plant! LOL! When the facts about old "Joe the plumber" comes out, McCain's ass will be grass... poor old Joe was a pawn used in a losing game... I can't wait till the press gets done with poor old Joe who can't get ahead because of taxes!
Oh God, this is funny! McCain tried to pull a fast one, and poor old "Joe the plumber" that didn't know enough about Obama's tax plan to understand what the hell's going on, is a registered Republican!
Independent my ass! He's a plant!
When the facts about Joe come out, McCain and most importantly Palin, will be gone. LOL -
sammielee24
This says it all - time to spread the wealth and stop the greed that has run rampant. The majority of small businesses should get help - the biggest companies should be forced to funnel more of their obscene profits into their own company rather than rely on the taxpayer to prop them up. Paying an oil company or a pharm company billions in tax cuts or subsidies is moronic. The insane policies that are putting the USA in what is predicted to be a long, harsh recession have to be stopped. The party is over. sammieswife.
Excellent article: "Tax Day Gifts for the Rich" by Holly Sklar
By Holly Sklar
When it comes to cutting taxes for the wealthy, President Bush can truly say, "Mission accomplished."
The richest 1 percent of Americans received about $491 billion in tax breaks between 2001 and 2008. That's nearly the same amount as U.S. debt held by China -- $493 billion -- in the form of Treasury securities.
Do you want our government to mortgage more of our nation's future to finance tax breaks for the rich?
Tax cuts have already helped the richest 1 percent -- whose annual incomes average about $1.5 million -- increase their share of the nation's income to a higher level than any year since 1928 on the eve of the Great Depression.
Wall Street's five biggest firms paid "a record $39 billion in bonuses for 2007, a year when three of the companies suffered the worst quarterly losses in their history" and are eliminating thousands of jobs as losses mount from the subprime mortgage market collapse, reports Bloomberg.
The International Monetary Fund says the United States is in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Yet, we are borrowing money with interest to finance tax cuts for Wall Street executives.
For Americans below the top 1 percent, the tax cuts have been a giant swindle. The bottom 99 percent of taxpayers were left with a bill of $3.74 in debt for every $1 in federal tax cuts from 2001 to 2006, reports Citizens for Tax Justice. Only the top 1 percent came out ahead.
Meanwhile, the federal budgets for environmental protection and housing for the elderly have been slashed more than 20 percent since 2001, adjusted for inflation, the Community Development Block Grant budget is down 32 percent, and the lack of health insurance is an epidemic.
Most households aren't even earning as much as they did in 1999, adjusting for inflation. But the 400 taxpayers with the highest incomes doubled their incomes between 2002 and 2005.
According to the latest IRS data, which excludes tax-exempt interest income from state and local government bonds, the richest 400 taxpayers reported an average $214 million each on their federal income tax returns in 2005 -- up from $104 million in 2002.
As the Wall Street Journal observed, "It's also important to remember that these figures don't represent wealth or even lifetime earnings -- merely income for a single year."
Thanks to tax cuts, it's now common for the nation's richest bosses to pay taxes at a lower rate than workers. The 400 richest taxpayers paid only 18 percent of their income in federal individual income taxes in 2005 --- down from 30 percent in 1995.
"The drop in effective tax rates for the top 400 filers," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports, "worked out to a tax reduction of $25 million per filer in 2005." It would take 673 average workers earning $37,149 a year to reach $25 million today.
While tax cuts help the superrich compete over who has the biggest submarine-carrying superyacht, Katrina survivors are being hit with foreclosures, and neglected levees and bridges around the country are a disaster waiting to happen.
Most of the provisions of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2010. President Bush wants to make them permanent.
The richest 1 percent of households would receive nearly $1.2 trillion in tax cuts from 2009 through 2018, reports the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
How much is $1.2 trillion? More than all the debt accumulated in the nearly 200 years from George Washington through Ronald Reagan's first two years in office. That's before adding interest payments on the borrowed $1.2 trillion.
Tax cuts for the wealthy fuel rising inequality along with rising debt and neglect. Taxpayers with annual incomes above $1 million in fiscal year 2012, for example, would increase their after-tax income by 7.5 percent thanks to an average tax cut of $162,000. The poorest 20 percent of taxpayers would get an average tax cut of $45 -- and decaying public services.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama promise to end the tax breaks for the wealthy. Republican candidate John McCain wants to extend them. What do you want?
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sir82
The media is starting to "Palin" Joe the Plumber.
Asking the tough questions, like "What do you read?"