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ATTN: Rush, Hannity, et al – Help me help Joe The Plumber

By: Jack_Savage (Diary)  |  October 16th, 2008 at 08:35 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As was predicted by many and written about on this site by Andy Smith, the long knives are indeed out for Joe The Plumber. The unions are after him, the press is after him, and it turns out he owes back taxes. I have no doubt that several more tax audits are in his future – you see, you have to be a certain type of average middle class guy, and fending for yourself certainly does not fit the bill.

Anyway, let’s return to the back taxes. Turns out that Joe owes around $1200 in Ohio back taxes. Here’s what I would like to do. I am kind of an average Joe too, and I hereby do pledge $100 to help with the tax bill. This is kinda what Americans do for each other. When someone is in a bind, we don’t refer them to the local WIC or welfare office, we help. Personally. With our own money, not money we extracted from someone else.

Who knows? If enough people help, maybe he can pay the taxes. Maybe he can go through the requirements of the union and get his certifications. Maybe he can even buy the business he wants to buy.

At any rate, I am in for $100. We’ll see what happens…Rush? Sean?

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  • speciallist

    n/p

    • awtherfrd

      and I will match your 100 dollars.

      • Jaded

        nt

        • speciallist

          separated at Birth!!…Hands up Obama!!

          • Jack_Savage

            I am working on it.
            Thanks!

  • GregInFla

    Remember Dan’s Bake Sale
    Maybe another Bake Sale is in order.

  • baserunr

    Joe, and average guy working in the plumbing trade, asks a question. Next thing you know, squadrons of media are combing the public records in search of information on him. Barack Obama has been running for months, and they’ve not done a thing to investigate his past. Nothing! Todd Palin isn’t even running, yet we’re told that he had a DUI 22 YEARS AGO!* How are Joe or Todd relevant to the campaign? What about Barack? Can anyone besides Fox News do an investigative piece on the guy?

  • kowalski

    I’ll help the fund. Some people are angry at me for my diary entry earlier today, but throwing this guy out in front of a hostile media without any kind of forethought given to the blowback on the guy’s life was a mistake.

    • Pomme

      Now where do I get the “I’m Joe the Plumber” T-shirts?

  • RichChatfield

    I will be glad to help. Will be watching for instructions.

  • nixon1n72

    The media will tear up Joe the Plumber for not paying his $1200 in taxes. Where is the media frenzie for Charlie Rangle (sp) D-NY? Where? It was a one day’s news cycle.

    • Jack_Savage

      A VERY good point.

      • alchemist17

        You can’t just expect the head of the house tax writing committee to actually understand what they’re writing, can you? Next, you’ll be saying that our representatives should read and debate bills before voting on them – just think of the economic repercussions on DC area bars and restaurants!

        • Uma_Richie

          Yet he is considered fit for public office.

          Joe’s tax lien is 20 months old and he’s not considered qualified to ask a presidential candidate a fair question.

          • Harold_Vaughn
          • Jaded

            We are all Joe the plumber!!!!

          • UnderCoverGuy

            You are right, Americans can associate with Joe the Plumber because we are all (an example of) Joe the plumber.

          • speciallist
  • Jaded

    nt

    • vernonia

      is a tax protester! Where’s a Texas Congressman when you need him?

      Before he buys this business and doubles its revenues to put him in a higher Obama tax bracket, though, he ought to get his own finances in order.

      • cookcountyconservative

        A classic!

        • izoneguy

          That was the best and why I carry a Glock 17….

          • Jaded

            nt

  • Jaded

    also if gets going you know he will have to claim that money as income so lets make sure he knows that….

    • QueenOfCups

      They will be available on Monday.

      “I am Joe the Plumber”

      • itrytobenice

        How dare you question The One?

  • KBDay

    And I’ll double your hundred.

    Can we at Red State do this?

    The heinous attack on this man for speaking up is all on the back of the Democrats.

    Have Joe’s civil rights been offended?

    Is there a lawyer in this house?

    Let’s help this guy.

    The Democratic Party wants to take your freedom to speak away.

    Remember–Yobama came to this guy’s neighborhood. Joe didn’t invite The One.

    All he did was ask a question based on his hopes for his own American dream.

    This is a perfect example of the left’s disdain for the real middle class.

    • Jack_Savage

      Tax implications, etc – plus the fact that Joe may not even want our money.

      We’ll see where it goes…you never know!

  • von

    “Long knives” usually refers to betrayal by folks on your own side, given its history (the night of the long knives). Joe isn’t being betrayed by folks on his side.

    • vernonia

      Unfortunately for this poor bastard, he got caught on video. I don’t think he was doing a hit job for McCain, but McCain’s reckless citation of a man he saw only on video has up-ended Joe’s life.

      Obama answered something to the effect of “I want everyone not as successful as you to have a chance, so I’ll cut their taxes and, ya’ know, share the wealth.”

      McCain, having not met the Sam, or Joe, or whoever he is, sees this snippet of video and embraces Joe the Plumber as the Everyman he’s fighting for. At lon last, McCain decides 3 weeks before the election that he’s for the entrepreneur. Evidently, “National Greatness” or “Shake up Washington” (McCain-speak for “P*ss off your friends”) were not compelling rallying cries.

      This is the same McCain who has boasted that his career in government is superior to making “profits”.

      McCain has been anything but steady or cautious or judicious lately. The old reckless flyboy is back. He will more damage to conservatism’s brand than Obama can damage America.

      4 years of McCain will completely burn down conservatism’s popular appeal. 4 years of Obama will re-ignite America’s desire to be left alone. I’d rather the fire be our friend than our enemy.

      • vernonia

        Every lawyer knows you don’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to (see: “If the gloves don’t fit…”)

        Every politician ought to know you don’t cite as your paragon someone you don’t really know.

        • bs

          Your brain:

          Any questions?

          • MikeO

            Isn’t it hilarious how the one-time President of the Harvard Law Review got his butt handed to him by a “lowly” plumber?

            When your side attacks and demeans this guy who so clearly outsmarted your brilliant candidate, then what exactly are you saying about your Teleprompter Jesus?

          • vernonia

            Six years ago, the prospect of Republican hegemony for decades was seriously discussed by left and right-minded thinkers. The GOP blew it quickly, and the Dems will, too.

            Is America so delicate a flower that we can’t afford even 2 years of a bad-for-business government? I don’t think so, and I’m surprised you do.

            Perhaps you’re the one hallucinating if see McCain and think Coolidge. Electing a man more concerned about “patriotism” than “profits” will be bad for small-government conservatives.

          • vernonia

            Maybe you could share the complete video with me. I heard Joe say, “You’re gonna’ raise my taxes,” and Obama say, “Yeah.”

            Whoa, get out the plates, Senator, you just got served!

            C’mon Mike, be a little more felicitous in your writing. Nobody handed anybody’s butt to anyone. Maybe the overly-cautious Obama slipped when he said “share the wealth”, instead of the more guarded “help out the struggling”. That’s it.

            Obama isn’t my candidate, but let’s try a metaphor Toledo Joe might appreciate: McCain is the Matt Millen of the GOP, and the sooner he’s gone the better.

          • Jaded

            Joe the Plumber was on multiple radio shows etc before McCain ever uttered his name and Joe has enjoyed the limelight as well….YOU support McCain like I support your right to think like a tool….I don’t and you don’t…WE are looking to help a person in need who did what the MSM would not do and MAKE Obama show his SOCIALIST core….he has damn well earned that 1200.00 from this Conservative/Republican Party…..

            He did for us what millions of John McCain’s money could never do and that was out the Imitation Christ for EXACTLY what he is a Socialist/Marxist/Liberal….whatever pick your name for him they are all the same!

          • speciallist

            n/p

          • 29Victor

            That’s what Joe accomplished, that’s why he’s so hated by the left and the MSM.

            The MSM has spent the last year helping Obama hide his true beliefs and intentions. In one question, the kind of question that the MSM should have been asking, Joe got Obama to show his true colors.

            He wants to spread the wealth around. He wants to re-distribute income. His “95% tax cut” isn’t a tax cut at all, it’s a welfare check.

            He’s a Socialist.

  • PacifistGunslinger
    1. Nobody forced Joe to speak to anyone, at least I saw no gun at the back of his neck. He’s an adult; treat him like one.
    2. Republicans now think deadbeating on one’s taxes is a GOOD thing? Republicans need to stop this neverending crybabying about taxes. It costs money to run this country; freedom isn’t free, it costs money.
    3. Listen closely to Joe; he’s nobody’s Republican. He may be libertarian but what he actually sounds like is a very confused person with a limited grasp of political philosophy.
    4. We can’t blame Democrats for doing the ultimate pimp job on Joe; Senator McCain did that, Governor Palin did that, FOX News did that.
    5. So, instead of sending money to an admitted tax cheat, do some good in the world; send your money to a reputable charity that perhaps might fight a nasty disease that you don’t want government money used to fight.
    • Putter

      /

  • KBDay

    This guy asks a candidate who strolls through his neighborhood, cameras in tow, a question and he is investigated, grilled and (ohmigod!) he owes back taxes. The AP carries the story.

    Meanwhile, the guy who writes our tax codes owes a ton of back taxes for the worst IRS offence you can commit–not reporting income–and he is not investigated. The guy who handles Obama’s campaign money (the horror!) has tax problems as well.

    The hypocrisy of the left is almost unbearable at times.

    The greatest concern we should have about Joe is that he was assaulted for speaking out and asking a question media and several debate hosts declined to ask.

    Obama, like his Congressional leaders, will be a financial disaster for this country.

    Dodd’s lack of oversight (he was running for prez, remember?), Schumer’s stupidity (and who knows what else, considering what we now know about his donors having access to IndyMac books just before Schumer grabbed the media spotlight with the letter that directly caused the run on the bank), Frank (talk about a conflict of interest? His former lover at the top of a GSE), Jefferson (cash in the freezer; indictments filed)….

    The hypocrisy of the left.

    And I never even got around to Mahoney and Wexler.

    The hypocrisy of the left.
    ibid.
    ibid.

  • KBDay

    offense.

    Oh, for an edit icon on comments.

  • Jaded

    nt

    • teebob2000

      I’ll help out a lying (that he’s a plumber, Independent, buying a business) tax cheat who later admits that Obama’s tax cut will help him more than McCain’s yet he’s too blinded to vote for his own best interests. Unpatriotic dolt.

      Where do I send my penny?

      • MikeO

        In Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Pee Wee wrecked his bicycle while doing silly tricks.

        He quickly popped-up from where he fell and announced, “I meant to do that.”

        Once your Teleprompter Jesus incorporates “spreading the wealth around” in his stump speeches, I’ll reconsider whether Joe the Plumber handed the President of the Harvard Law Review his butt on a platter.

        • Moe_Lane

          Tsk, tsk.

          Blam.

          • NightTwister

            What a zoo it was last time (from what I heard, I didn’t get here until 2000).

          • dwarfmama

            Is America so delicate a flower that we can’t afford even 2 years of a bad-for-business government?

            Look what shape our economy is in after 2 years of Democrat-controlled Congress. Add a Democrat in the White House, and there’s no telling what damage they could do.

          • TLynn

            Sad that most liberals are not willing to give their own money in any meaningful way but are more than willing to give mine to those they deem less fortunate. Maybe if we turned this into a govt. program to help Joe they would like it much better and would not have to strain their pocketbooks prying that penny out.

          • Mason617

            And what time are you not home?

            It is in my best economic interest to break into your house while you are away.

            Since you are concerned with the average joe doing what is in his best economic interest, I expect a speedy reply.

            In the meantime, I would make more in tips if the restaurant next to ours were to … catch fire and be forced to close down.

          • Mason617

            Republicans now think deadbeating on one’s taxes is a GOOD thing?

            As a matter of fact I do. I would encourage everyone to evade paying taxes as much as possible.

            Unless you course you are a Democrat, and advocate confiscating the products of other people’s labor while greedily hoaring your own.

            Actually I think any liberal who has enough money left over after donating to charity (and “the children!”) to afford luxury of any kind is a hypocrite.

          • Dave_in_Fla

            I’ll be just a bit more motivated to find ways to reduce my funding of the Obama Socialist States of America.

  • LeddaBlue

    http://www.redstate.com/diaries/mundy/2008/oct/21/joe-the-plumber-hero-fund/

    I am not sure if it is legit, just thought I’d mention it. They have raised $115 so far for Joe.