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Do average people understand Joe Wurzelbacher?

Democrats ARE the party of big business, and here's why.

By: Paul Seale (Diary)  |  October 16th, 2008 at 10:02 AM  | 

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Being a small business owner this subject is close to my heart and I wonder aloud if people truly understand what it means what happens. Lets face it, most people just go to work, do their job and then come home. Sure, they get taxed on their pay stub and some might even look at whats being taken from the pay stub, but do people understand how a small business works?

While the business’s income might be $250,000.00 a year, it certainly isnt what the guy might be taking home after business expenses, pay roll or whatever. Many small businesses and sole propriotorships are taxed as individuals and the forcomthing tax cut repeal and proposed tax increases will absolutely crush them.

Lets not stop there, though.

There are many other government mandates which can act as hurdles for the American dream of being your own boss, and I am not talking about common sense measures either.

Whether its tying minimum wages to inflation, proposed mandatory health care requirements or what ever else. They all add to start up expenses and act as default hurdles to mom and pop shops which inevitably hurt them. This is why I maintain that Democrats are the ultimate party of big business – because only such organizations which can take on such regulation can survive.

This bring us back to Joe Wurzelbacher.

If the government was interested in growing the economy and recovering jobs lost by lay offs or cuts by bigger organizations they would be finding ways to help Joe with his dream, not crush it under the auspices of “spreading the wealth.”

Instead, though, is a road fraught with government induced regulation. This road will only get bigger and more complex under a Senator Obama administration backed by a Democrat controlled Congress. We know this only by viewing the bills which were attempted to pass over the past two years.

In the end, though, all this might still not matter.

Yeah, there are tens of thousands of small business owners in this country. However we are still a relatively small segment of society. The question is do people get it and care?

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  • izoneguy

    Joe the Plumber

    Democrats like to play class warfare games, but Joe isn?t having any of that. He notes that $250,000 is a mighty arbitrary figure, and nothing prevents Obama from suddenly deciding that $150,000 is the entry-level point for the wealthy, or $100,000. It?s a ?slippery slope?, he tells Sawyer, and it?s socialism.

    • Leopard1996

      I normally don’t watch the alphabet networks. What was the retort that Diane Sawyer had for the guy?

      I never could stand that rag.

      • paulseale

        at NRO – transcript is there.

        She tried to set the guy up as if the tax increase wasnt THAT bad and it wouldnt be applicable to him.

  • leppard

    Very simplified version: If an egg farmer works 7 days per week 10 hours per day, makes 260K and gets hits with harsh tax, why would they continue to put in the effort? Most likely they will reduce production. What happens when they reduce production? Less eggs. Less eggs means increased demand, which then means increased price for eggs.

    Stimulate not punish.

    • eburke

      “S” word that John couldn’t bring himself to use last night.

      But what really rocked was Joe just slapping Diane around on the ‘well, shouldn’t gazillionaires pay that teeny weenie extra 3% in taxes” meme. I’d kill (whoops, there I go being hateful again) to hear a Republican political figure give Joe’s response in a public forum and quit apologizing for success. It left Dianne stammering and stuttering like a Barack Obama clone.

      But I loved the way she quickly transitioned to the closing schmaltzy talk whilst slinking out of the interview with her tail between her legs.

      • izoneguy

        …every business I know works it’s way around taxes.
        Multiple S-corps….smaller buckets to fill up.
        All Obama will do is get more people to hide more
        money and the net effect will be less revenue anyway.

        I guess it’s time to hire the wife and kids and my cats and dogs.

        At least Obama tells the truth about one thing!

        Hey, I am Barack Obama and I want to raise your taxes!!!

        The only truthful thing he has said this whole election!!

        Maybe that invading Pakistan statement was truthful also??

  • James_Reynolds

    put into to small businesses, owners give up alot in order for their businesses to succeed working 16-18 days most of the time when they are starting out or when the economy gets bad. They earned whatt they got with sweat and blood, it just can’t be looked at as money from the government. To penalize small hard working businesses just because you want to punish the big corps who you think are greedy, then you want to give the money to lazy non-workers who pay no taxes in the form of a tax check. How can you give them what they didn’t pay? Joe was right its socialism cloaked as tax code

    • OccamsRazor

      To do otherwise, would be to stiffle thought, imagination, genuine progress, growth, and ultimately the hard work it takes to make all of that concrete.

  • Leopard1996

    I totally understand, despite the fact that I am only a salaryman. I have people that I know that own their own businesses, and my feeling is this. You guys took the risk of putting yourselves on the line to invest in your thing, and your risk succeeded. I don’t believe the government should take a percentage of that from you.

  • paulseale

    Because what Joe did was ask a very relevent question which the MSM refuse to ask (and even try to negate – via Diane Sawyer’s retort to Joe this morning in an interview) – but it exists in the all to real world for us.

  • Strelnikov

    That’s right: call him Mister!

    We must hope that the average man is on the same level as Mr. Wurzelbacher! That the average voter can eventually spot a crypto-socialist agenda and understand that it is anti-American and ultimately injurious to the entire country. That being “poor” in America means that you still have enough to eat, if not more than enough given the obesity rate among the “poor” here, that you will have a TV set and a cell phone and a car if you are “poor” in America.

    That taxing “the rich” means penalizing success in order to make society “fair” and that “fairness” is a code word for “mediocrity” which is another word for “France” and the rest of “Old Europe.”

    We note that Katie Couric cut him off as soon as he mentioned “Obama” and was about to give his opinion about him.

  • redalert

    izoneguy you hit the nail right on the head. I will bet anything that if he gets elected,Obama will say that because of the bailout and having to spend $700 billion he will have to revise his tax plan. That’s when the $250,000 threshold will be lowered. Either this afternoon or tomorrow I am going to post a diary entry that I hope the Sarah Palin’s people will read. With the superb way she can deliver lines she would give a great speech on this topic. I am a playwright. I will tie in Joe the Plumber,the lowered tax threshold,Castro,the reason there was a mass exodus of Cubans to Miami. It is going to be devastating. I will write it the way an actor would deliver the lines on stage. Stay tuned. I like your diary and comments. I read them often.