Your morning Joe...
Joe the plumber is not a plumber.
Joe "the plumber" Wurlzelbacher was referenced more than two dozen times in last night's debate as the candidates discussed their tax plans and how they would affect "average Joes". However according to the Toledo Blade, a print and online newspaper based in Mr. Wurzelbacher's home state, Joe is not a registered plumber. He claims he is practicing under the company's license, but the Blade reports that this is illegal.
As for Joe's opinions on the tax plans? It turns out that the Ohio Department of Taxation placed a lien on him for almost $1200 in unpaid taxes.
So who IS this guy, really? Who knows, maybe Joe "The Plumber" is his wrestling name.
More here: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/NEWS09/810160418
posted by MissMegs @ 10:59 AM
13 Comments
13 Comments:
At least Joe The Plumber is far less offensive than Joe Six-Pack. Defining an economic class by drinking six packs of beers?
That's rude.
Even if Joe the Plumber isn't actually a plumber, McCain and Tina Fey should at least keep that stereotype.
Actually, Joe the Plumber's not only not a plumber; he's not even a Joe. His name's Samuel.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/
I just thought it was funny that Obama co-opted McCain's little model American man. "Here's your fine, Joe. Zero."
Im pretty much thinking Joe the plumber and Joe six pack should hook up.
Well, I think we can assume that whether he is licensed or not, he still Plumbs, and therefore is a plumber. The tax lien just goes to show that he really needs that tax break that McCain probably won't give him, and the one that Obama says doesn't cover him (cause there is no damn way that a plumber is middle class, read some frigging Marx), but such are the horrors of democracy.
And Kim, I agree, I'm in a totally different economic class (unemployed student) and i drink many six packs (well four, but the cans are bigger in England), and I don;t want to be lumped into some class based on the number of beers i consume from a container, by some politician who remembers the days before the ring-pull was invented (if not the vacuum sealed can).
So Joe "average" plumber works without a license and doesn't pay his taxes. If all the "averages" out there are like him, we're really in trouble.
Whatever Andrew, you're a traitor to the Queen.
(Sorry, Megan told me to.)
Your links to The Atlantic and TNR don't work. I'm highly offended.
Only in America could presidential candidates spend half of a debate talking about a plumber. That said, I never want to hear about him ever again.
Write more insightful and/or funny commentary. I control the internets and can give you traffic. But only if you write well.
He was not only a plant, but his presence was yet another example of the McCain campaign's very poor background check/research abilities....
Well, either way, he's famous now!!
His vocation is not defined by legality. He's a plumber...just an illegal one. It's like gardeners...
Poor Joe got caught up in a race he wasn't running in and got trampled. Somebody's been sniffing the draino...
Regardless if Joe the Plumber is licensed or pays his taxes or has major butt-cleavage...you know he's going to have his own reality show...
oh what a world
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