I agree.yovargas wrote:How about this. McCain tried to make a point about taxes and how they'll affect certain businesses. Nobody is talking about that. Instead, we're talking about Joe the Plumber. Which is more important, the affect of Obama's taxes on businesses or some guy called Joe? Why has the latter gotten such an enormous amount of attention but the former has gotten so little??
McCain is using Joe the Plumber to hide the real problem with his tax cuts - and the problem is that the persons who would really feel Bush's tax cuts revoked are Wall Street CEOs and big business CEOs, not the average Joe. Average Joe would overwhelmingly benefit from Obama's tax plans, as was shown with this real guy as well.
See, McCain can't really go around and seek sympathy for those CEOs, not after the financial collapse and the bailout - and that's why he tries to portray Joe the Plumber as a "victim" of tax cuts revoke. And of course it backfired, because small business owners overwhelmingly don't write themselves 250000$ paychecks - those would the average or bigger businesses. And even for those guys, who make less than 1mln in personal income, the Bush tax cut revoke wouldn't be reall felt much.
Big business CEOs with 6-7-8 figure paychecks are the ones who'll be squeezed, and that's what McCain is really fighting against.
And those CEOs are hated by the public, and anyway they used Bush's tax cuts to invest in China in India - China and India workers got their real wages increased 4-5 times during Bush years, while American middle class incomes stayed the same and people had to borrow on a national scale to keep up with consuming of all that new huge China/India output. And that's why we have this collapse now.
So why let those guys keep those tax cuts, and even give them more - as McCain wants to do? They'll just invest in Latin America, Vietnam and other places where work force is still dirt cheep, and the average Joe in US will again be left out to dry, and will have to borrow instead of earning more - or fall back to the income levels of China/India.
In that sense, I absolutely agree - McCain = Bush and even worse, as he wants to continue this failed policy - plus he wants even less restriction on trade.
And he's been throwing dust into American people's eyes with this poor Joe the Plumber, trying to goad them into voting against their interest and for the interest of big business CEOs - again. See, the poster child for tax cut revoke victim is an average CEO, but he tries to convince everyone it's an average Joe the Plumber.
What amazes me in all this is how quickly people forget their own outrage about big business and big money receiving 700bln $ bailout. But for McCain giving them even more in extra tax cuts is OK?!
At least Obama would tax them more so that those 700bln dollars will be paid in large part from ther pockets. I think it's fair.