Comments on: Economics Explained, By Joe the Plumber

By: Plumbing Quotes

Plumbing Quotes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:04:16 +0000

Great explanation , thanks for sharing

By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:03:36 +0000

Well, then we may as well pull all our troops out, right? Just as we should with South Korea. No need for us there.

Afghanistan needs those troops, anyway.

By: Eric Dondero

Eric Dondero — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:32:50 +0000

What War? Afghanistan? Iraq is over, done, we won. Unless you haven’t been paying attention to the news. In fact, just today they handed over the Anbar Province completely to the Iraqis.

“Stop the War” is an obsolete chant regarding Iraq. There is no “War.”

By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:06:46 +0000

I don’t see what’s ironic about that at all– he obviously didn’t like taxes and didn’t want to pay any! And who does?

It doesn’t seem that he’s really evading taxes, he just didn’t pay some of them. There’s a lien on his house, and if he can’t pay them now I suppose he will when he sells the house. That’s not evasion; at some point it will defiitely be paid back, with interest I’m sure.

His views on economics, if he was quoted correctly during this interview, are very good. He sounds more knowledgeable on that account than Obama.

Tax evasion is quite different– it usually involves extremely wealthy people trying to get out of paying their “fair share” by hiring expensive and shady lawyers, etc. a la Wesley Snipes. That has its purposes too, but that’s not what Joe the Plumber seemed to be doing.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:39:30 +0000

Good one…it’s too bad you completely missed the irony that Joe the Plumber is actually too busy evading taxes to concern himself with the pros and cons of either candidate’s tax plan. But you trumpet his views anyway. Last time I checked, tax-evasion wasn’t necessarily a noble, patriotic act.

By: libertariangirl

libertariangirl — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:13:09 +0000

Not quite. Now that you said that I’ll have to show my “Lefty Libertarian Republican hater” side with a post about how McCain is just so wrong about the war and it doesn’t matter if he cuts taxes, he’ll put us into endless debt through his 100-year adventure in Iraq.

My point in this post is that I think Joe the Plumber understands economics better than McCain and can certainly explain it better; that’s no compliment to McCain and he really could have been helping himself if he had laid off the Bill Ayers attacks and focused on free market economics instead. He has not chosen to do so, and now the free market is getting knocked for everything that’s going on, which is actually tragic. He will also probably lose this election because of it; when you combine McCain saying nothing about economics with the Iraq War, people just want to move on.

Joe actually said in the interview that I linked to that he wished McCain would come out more on this stuff; he didn’t sound like an entirely enthusiastic McCain supporter.

By: Eric Dondero

Eric Dondero — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:23:50 +0000

Libertarian Girl, I’m a bit surprised. You’re becomming more of a Libertarian Republican, and even a McCain/Palin supporter every day. Before you sounded like a typical Lefty Libertarian Republican hater. Now you’re even defending Republican Joe the Plumber. We’re making progress.

Anyway, I highlighted your quotes here at LR Blog.

By: Eric Dondero

Eric Dondero — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:21:53 +0000

And Joe is a registered Republican, and reportedly voting for McCain.