Everybody Has A Hero

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Joe the Plumber - an independent man

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Joe the Plumber gets back to his roots

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Joe The Plumber Has New Words Of Advice

Joe's New Book

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On Joe The Plumber

Joe the Plumber, like so many Republicans, has a warped view of the world. When he takes government handouts, it's not welfare. When you take it, it IS welfare.

Rick Sanchez Speaks to Joe The Plumber

Rick takes Joe out behind the woodshed and tans his hide. Just goes to show you how ignorant Joe actually is. This is fun to watch.

You Can't Make This Up

Joe the Plumber gets a job as a reporter for some Conservative Blog and travels to Israel to report on the war in Gaza. The best part of this story is that in his first report as a reporter, he claims that reporters shouldn't be allowed to report from war zones. I guess he thinks that keeping the average "Joe's" back home ignorant of current events is the best way to keep them happy about war. And he should quit.

Joe the Plumber Moves On

Some jokes just go on and on and on and....

Plumbing the Truth On Joe

Speaking of Taxes and Joe the Plumber...

From the Progress Report (10/17/2008) - the archives are located HERE

PROGRESSIVE TAX POLICY: President Bill Clinton decided early in his term in office that expanding the middle class -- not tax cuts for the rich -- would be the engine of economic growth, while his successor, President George W. Bush, argued the opposite. But the as the results have shown, a progressive tax policy enacted by President Clinton achieved far superior results for the economy. By the end of Clinton's second term, unemployment stood at very low 3.9 percent while today it has risen over 6 percent. The poverty rate was lower in 2000 than it is today. The median household income (adjusted for inflation) was over $3,000 higher eight years ago. Bush inherited a $237 billion federal budget surplus, which he has turned into a $482 billion deficit (and growing fast). Building on this formula, the Center for American Progresss put forward a progressive, "comprehensive tax reform plan to restore fairness, simplicity, and opportunity to our tax system while generating the resources necessary to meet our nation's commitments," such as energy independence, education, and health care. In order to achieve these goals, the plan centers on increasing the take-home pay of those making under $200,000 a year, with those making more seeing an increase relative to the current tax policy.

THE REAL 'JOE THE PLUMBER': Earlier this week, Fox News's Neil Cavuto summarized the right wing's fascination with Wurzelbacher. "You're the type of guy who these tax increases of [Obama's] could affect, or where the cut-off is could effect, and you don't fit this gazillionaire model," Cavuto told him during an interview. But according to tax analysts, the problem for McCain and the right in focusing on Joe the Plumber is that "the underlying premise that Wurzelbacher would face higher taxes under Obama is neither true nor typical of how the vast majority of small businesses would fare." Moreover, even if Wurzelbacher buys the business, it is "unlikely" that his purchase "would give him a taxable income of more than $200,000 -- leaving him unaffected by Obama's proposal." Even if he did earn $280,000 per year as he projected he might, Wurzelbacher "would pay just $773 more in taxes under Obama's plan than McCain's," hardly a crippling blow to his business. The Toledo Blade reports that Joe the Plumber currently earns well under $100,000 per year. In that case, he would save more under Obama's plan than McCain's. "Rather than a game-changing blow for the McCain campaign, 'Joe the plumber' is turning into a bad case of blowback,'' said Rogan Kersh, a public service professor at New York University.

Joe The Plumber - My Taxes Wouldn't Go Up.