So news this AM is that Joe The Plumber makes $40,000 a year, his boss doesn’t plan on selling his business anytime soon and owes back takes of $1,200 (which doesn’t really freak me out considering how many millions in tax breaks we gives the corporates each year – yes bailout).
But I just keep going back to his meet-up with Obama and his complaint that he’ll make $250,000 and can’t buy the business. I now know of three departments in Pima County in which people have been told they may lose their jobs. The Community Food Bank is reporting a 35 percent increase in users.
In this climate if your biggest problem is that you can’t buy a business because of taxes because you’re making $250,000 a year, I want to know what economic reality McCain lives under?
This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2008.
Five plus years ago Connie Tuttle former Weekly columnist wrote this column that still applies today about corporate tax loopholes. It’s worth a read. It’s called Free Ride…
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=47199
Joe the Plumber….what a joke.
It’s just one gimmick after another from John McCain.
But at least he’s my friend.
Some point well below $250,000 is rich. I’d even go with $100,000. And if you can’t afford taxes at that point, then you aren’t being unfairly taxed but are instead very stupid. I know it costs a lot to run a business, but I also know that people should save up before starting one. Just like people buying homes: if you can’t afford it then don’t get it.
The money woes of the wealthy make me laugh. Get a trust started to avoid inheritance taxes, start a 401K to lower taxable income, buy a house for the mortgage deduction, donate to charity, but don’t complain that your tax burden is too large, you ungrateful doofuses. Your whining is transparent and self-serving no matter how much you do actually contribute to society, but tell us when you have a real problem.
And if you want government welfare to start or preserve your business, don’t complain about the other welfare people use to do self-serving things like eat, get medicine, and go to school. If we made a flow chart of actual needs, small business startups is certainly on there, but it’s not the only thing.
I’m rich, and I approve this message.
I approve your message too. Well said.
Well thank you for saying what most think but are afraid to say. If anything must go, it has to be corporate Welfare. Two working people in a family should be able to get a real cut in taxes if they make $15000.00 but over that they should pay taxes and stop crying about it. Folks making much less pay their taxes and don’t cry about it. Seems the richer you are the more you cry about the taxes you pay and should pay. Cheers to Jon and Whisker Frisker, I agree.