Joe Wurzelbacher explained to “Good Morning America”’s Diane Sawyer (you can watch the video here ) why Barack Obama’s tax plans do not exactly make him a happy camper plumber.
Some important notes: Joe isn’t making $250,000 now . Rather, he hopes he’ll earn such an amount of money after he buys up the business he works for and works hard to improve it. His question was, therefore, with the future in mind: ‘If I work hard to become successful, are you going to tax me extra, and thereby punish my success?’
That was Joe’s point.
And Obama did not make him happy.
What I find most impressive about Joe, and I guess this is why the media focus on him right now, is that he comes across as a perfectly normal dude, who cares crap about politics normally. He’s only involved now, because he wants to know what the two candidates plan to do if they win, and what this might mean for himself and his family. The reasoning he uses, by the way, to criticize Obama, is one many Americans - and people everywhere for that matter - will agree with. That does not mean I agree with it - Obama’s not a socialist but more of a social democrat for instance (two distinctly different things).
It’s fascinating to see an average American, who truly believes in the American Dream and in the founding principles of his nation, talk about policies politicians would like to implement. Fascinating.
And that’s my last article, ever , about “Joe the Plumber,” from Holland, Ohio (yes, I also sympathize with those who live in a city or village called Holland. How couldn’t I, I’m Dutch after all).
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