A political note:

[pyat]

Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher sounds like a jackass.

Mr Wurzelbacher said Mr Obama's plan to raise taxes to redistribute money was "kind of a socialist viewpoint".

"Robin Hood stole from greedy rich people and redistributed it to the peasants, so to speak, so if he's calling us peasants, I kind of resent that," he said."

He's worried that Obama would tax his prospective business to the tune of 39% instead of the current 36%. So, shouldn't he see himself as one of the "greedy rich people" Robin had to steal from?

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[archai.livejournal.com]

...although actually, as I've heard on the news (NPR this morning), Joe makes $250k/yr. Joe would see no rise at all - he's in the last bracket (http://www.stefanhayden.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/obama_mccain_taxcut.gif) before Obama's tax plan would switch from cuts to hikes. He has room to increase his annual income nearly two and a half times before he comes out of that bracket, too.

I would mind JtP less as an icon of the middle class if he weren't a) so highly atypical of it and b) less of a shill. Seriously.