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?
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Once the News gets out...He will be buried in Donations
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 8:59PM EST (link)n/p
get me a link for the fund
Aaron Weatherford (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 9:15PM EST (link)and I will match your 100 dollars.
“My friends, it is coming to my attention that a great number of you are fearful of an Obama win. I must stress that you have nothing to fear from Obama winning the election as I have the greatest confidence he would be a most benevolent dictator.” – Hopefully John McCain
Get me a link as well and I will go 25.00 because I am politician tapped out!
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 9:17PM EST (link)nt
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Breaking...I figured it out!!..Joe the Plumber looks like Vick Mackey from the Shield!!
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 9:34PM EST (link)separated at Birth!!…Hands up Obama!!
You got it
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 9:40PM EST (link)I am working on it.
Thanks!
Maybe Rush could have a Bake Sale for Joe
GregInFla (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 10:05PM EST (link)Remember Dan’s Bake Sale
Maybe another Bake Sale is in order.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
This is unbelieveable
baserunr (Diary) Thursday, October 16th at 10:17PM EST (link)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?
“The day you think you know it all is the day your trouble starts.”
Count me in
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 12:11AM EST (link)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.
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I'm in...
Pomme (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 12:34AM EST (link)Now where do I get the “I’m Joe the Plumber” T-shirts?
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” William F Buckley Jr.
I am in
Rich Chatfield (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 12:49AM EST (link)I will be glad to help. Will be watching for instructions.
O.o Benjamin Franklin – “Well done is better than well said.
Joe vs Charlie
nixon1n72 (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 12:58AM EST (link)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.
THAT is a very good point
Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 7:10AM EST (link)A VERY good point.
But Chuck's taxes were a far more complex issue ...
alchemist17 (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 7:17AM EST (link)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!
It took Sen. Obama 17 years to pay $375 for 15 parking tickets.
Uma Richie (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 7:40AM EST (link)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.
This should be front page today. n/t
Vaughn Harold (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 7:55AM EST (link)Hey guys lets get this recommended and up top for when the link becomes available!!!
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 9:48AM EST (link)We are all Joe the plumber!!!!
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So true 4 Jaded
UnderCoverGuy (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 10:13AM EST (link)You are right, Americans can associate with Joe the Plumber because we are all (an example of) Joe the plumber.
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
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The Declaration of Independence
I have your 'trends'......hangin'...
speciallist (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 10:28AM EST (link)thanks for everyone pushing this up now Jack where is the link? We don't want this to fall away!
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Maybe Joe the Plumber...
vernonia Friday, October 17th at 12:15PM EST (link)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.
Dave Ramsey in 2012!
Thank God for Guns!
cookcountyconservative (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 12:29PM EST (link)A classic!
Haaaa Haaaa
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 12:49PM EST (link)That was the best and why I carry a Glock 17….
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Hey UndercoverGuy use the reply to :-)
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Hey Jack are we getting anywhere with this?
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 5:51PM EST (link)also if gets going you know he will have to claim that money as income so lets make sure he knows that….
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One of my co-workers is having some made
QueenOfCups (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 6:54PM EST (link)They will be available on Monday.
“I am Joe the Plumber”
5^10
itrytobenice (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 10:11PM EST (link)How dare you question The One?
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Let's do it.
KBDay (Diary) Friday, October 17th at 10:35PM EST (link)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.
KB Day/The US Report
“Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.” (Eisenhower)
Not getting anywhere with this yet, Jaded
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 9:49AM EST (link)Tax implications, etc – plus the fact that Joe may not even want our money.
We’ll see where it goes…you never know!
Minor point
von Saturday, October 18th at 10:47AM EST (link)“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.
For we have a peculiar power of thinking before we act, and of acting, too, whereas other men are courageous from ignorance but hesitate upon reflection.
Joe, a victim of McCain
vernonia Saturday, October 18th at 10:56AM EST (link)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.
Dave Ramsey in 2012!
Politics 101
vernonia Saturday, October 18th at 11:15AM EST (link)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.
Dave Ramsey in 2012!
And you, apparently, are a victim of drugs
Bill S (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 11:26AM EST (link)Your brain:
Any questions?
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Speaking of lawyers
MikeO Saturday, October 18th at 11:26AM EST (link)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?
Not a victim of anything, bs
vernonia Saturday, October 18th at 1:37PM EST (link)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.
Dave Ramsey in 2012!
Whoa, MikeO
vernonia Saturday, October 18th at 1:56PM EST (link)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.
Dave Ramsey in 2012!
You know what vernonia you are full of CRAP....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 4:21PM EST (link)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!
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LOL!!
speciallist (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 4:30PM EST (link)n/p
Joe got Obama to express himself honestly.
29Victor (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 5:01PM EST (link)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.
observations
PacifistGunslinger Saturday, October 18th at 6:29PM EST (link)Slug
Putter (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 6:37PM EST (link)/
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies…
Comical, really.
KBDay (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 11:52PM EST (link)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.
KB Day/The US Report
“Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.” (Eisenhower)
aaack.
KBDay (Diary) Saturday, October 18th at 11:54PM EST (link)offense.
Oh, for an edit icon on comments.
KB Day/The US Report
“Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.” (Eisenhower)
Hey Jack! any update or movement on this?
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Sure thing...
teebob2000 Sunday, October 19th at 1:15PM EST (link)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?
Pee Wee Herman
MikeO Sunday, October 19th at 1:23PM EST (link)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.
Good collection, but you left out the Keating smear.
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, October 19th at 1:25PM EST (link)Tsk, tsk.
Blam.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
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My (combined) wish list.
Sure, everyone can come here again.
NightTwister (Diary) Sunday, October 19th at 1:34PM EST (link)What a zoo it was last time (from what I heard, I didn’t get here until 2000).
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
You mean 2 MORE years?
dwarfmama (Diary) Monday, October 20th at 11:23AM EST (link)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.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. (Samuel Adams)
New Govt program
TLynn Monday, October 20th at 12:10PM EST (link)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.
Where do you live?
Pi Over Three (Diary) Tuesday, October 21st at 10:55AM EST (link)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.
I drive a car powered by hydrogen – C8H18 to be exact.
Hey, looks like you got one right!
Pi Over Three (Diary) Tuesday, October 21st at 11:03AM EST (link)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.
I drive a car powered by hydrogen – C8H18 to be exact.
I will admit, my "patriotism" will be strained
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Tuesday, October 21st at 11:10AM EST (link)I’ll be just a bit more motivated to find ways to reduce my funding of the Obama Socialist States of America.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
I read this earlier about Joe the Plumber Fund
LeddaBlue Tuesday, October 21st at 3:51PM EST (link)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.