Joe the Plumber takes union job at Chrysler

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6. "Vilified" my ass. The entire premise of this guy's question to Obama and, by extension, his

original fifteen minutes of fame was bullshit.

He said that he was planning to purchase his boss's plumbing business but wouldn't be able to do so if Obama implemented his plan to raise the tax rate on the top bracket back to what it was in the 90s.

The facts were that was that he wasn't planning to buy his boss's business, that he only made about $30,000 a year at the time and that wasn't even paying his taxes because he had liens on his property. Even if he had been in a position to buy his boss's company, Obama's original tax plan wouldn't have in any way affected the business because his boss didn't make anywhere near $250,000 a year after expenses.

The entire thing was horseshit, and he was forced to concede that Obama's plan wouldn't have any conceivable effect on him in an interview on CNN. It's another example of an imbecile who's barely middle class but identifies with the top 1% of income earners in the country and thinks that any slight increase in their taxes somehow "hurts" him.

It's ridiculous that this guy is still getting any press so many years after the fact.