Ed Huntress wrote:

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When do I get my cut of "Joe Plumber's" money?
Never, unless Joe starts netting more than $250,000 year off of his
plumbing business, which seems unlikely after listening to Joe. However,
if he *does* reach it, I'm going into plumbing right away.

If the small tax increase he'll be exposed to after he reaches $250,000,
until he gets up into the $1 million/year category, really is enough to
keep him from buying the business, then Joe doesn't have enough behind
him to go into business at all.

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Ed Huntress

It was a valid question, although a hypothetical one. And he apparently drew
an incorrect conclusion from the answer.

But the point is that "Joe" was all set to be McCain's poster boy for the
last few weeks of the election -- until the revelations came out about his
name, his business status, his tax lien and so on. He's a dud poster boy.

McCain's mistake was in focusing on "Joe", rather than the money quote:

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure
that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success
too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for
folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think
when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Sure sounds like socialism to me.

Will he make sure everyone "behind him" shares the downside too, if his
business fails like so many do? Unless he's a mortgage banker, it ain't
gonna happen.