Small Businesses; Take Notice!

October 16th, 2008 at 10:26am Bob Trojan

The only man who might change anybody’s mind on who to vote for in this presidential race is Joe Wurzelbacher. He was the star of last night’s final debate: the only one who managed to bring something genuinely new to an otherwise pretty predictable to-and-fro from Barack Obama and John McCain.  Joe the Plumber as he has come to be known is the man who wants to buy the small business in which he works, and to expand it so that he can employ more staff (which is to say ”create more American jobs” in political speak). A few days ago, in what has now become a legendary confrontation, he accused Obama of planning to raise his taxes, thus making it very much more difficult for him to do his bit to expand the economy. In the course of that exchange, Obama made the revelatory comment that he believed that  ”spreading the wealth around” would help everyone. And there it was: the crucial distinction between those (Democrats) who believe that the wealth created by individuals should be compulsorily redistributed, even if that means limiting the possibilities of creating more of it, and those (Republicans) who feel that it would be better left to the small businesses which will use it to grow and proffer more employment.

Source: Telegraph; U.K.

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