Yesterday I wore a McCain-Palin shirt under my work shirt. I never took my work shirt off, but I sure got a lot of flack for it. I mean, it’s just a t-shirt right? I wouldn’t get crap like this if I was wearing a Wilco t-shirt (maybe if I was wearing a Carlito t-shirt), but that’s the world we live in and some of these people really believe that the world is going to change for the better when Barrack Hussein Obama is elected. I don’t. I have my reasons why, but basically what it comes down to is that I am a Republican. Most of my friends are liberal as hell so I don’t talk about it much because when I try to explain it, most people just don’t get it. Thankfully, now I don’t have to. I have someone named Joe the Plumber to do it for me.
“I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year,” Wurzelbacher told Obama. “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”
Under Obama’s plan, individuals making more than $200,000 per year, or couples making more than $250,000 per year, would pay higher taxes on income, capital gains, and dividends. Starting ten years from now, Obama supports an additional 2-4 percent tax on individual income above $250,000 per year to help shore up the Social Security system.
My goal in life is to make more than $100k per year. I want to work hard and make a lot of money. When I do this I am sure that I will be charitable and spread my money around. I am going to provide a good life for my family and all of that. I want to help people that could use help. What I don’t want is for the government to punish me for working too hard, which is exactly what Democrats think should happen. I don’t agree with Republicans on a lot of things. What do I care if gay people want to get married? What do I care if people want to have abortions? This stuff doesn’t affect me. It doesn’t offend me on some deep personal level like I can’t go on living because my neighbor aborted a baby so they could have a sex change and marry a man. I don’t fucking give a shit. What does that have to do with me and my life? (And the thing is, that’s not even Republicans that’s certain Republicans. We live in a world where the far right is automatically considered Republicans, while the far left is somehow not Democrats. It doesn’t make any sense to me, but that’s just the way it is.) The reason I will vote for John McCain is not because I want gay marriage to be illegal, it’s because when I work my ass off and make a lot of money I don’t want to be paying more taxes so that someone who doesn’t work hard can have free health care. That’s not what this country is about, that’s not what I’m about. Hard work deserves to be rewarded, not punished. If people want to live their lives never striving for goals, never trying to get richer that’s fine go ahead and vote for Obama, but I want to make something of this life and I don’t need to be taxed for it.
“I don’t like it,” said Wurzelbacher. “You know, me or — you know, Bill Gates, I don’t care who you are. If you worked for it, if it was your idea, and you implemented it, it’s not right for someone to decide you made too much.”
Exactly.
