Throwing a wrench at Joe the Plumber

During last night's presidential debate, an Ohio man named Joe Wurzelbacher took center stage. Wurzerlbacher, better known to the country as "Joe the Plumber" was the centerpiece of John McCain's attacks on Barack Obama's tax plan.

Under Obama's plan, McCain claims, small business workers, like Joe, would receive tax hikes and struggle to continue their business.

Joe the Plumber is currently seeking to purchase the company that he works for, but under Obama, he would receive fines and higher taxes.

Shut up Joe, no one cares.

The detail that is left out of McCain's argument is that, with the business, the poor plumber would be making over $250,000 per year, placing him into the section in which Barack Obama would be raising taxes.

According to Obama, his intended tax increase for those that make more than $250,000 per year would only affect about five percent of the U.S. for everyone else, Obama claimed, there will be a tax decrease.

Not that McCain cares.

With the plight of poor six-figure salary Joe the Plumber in mind, McCain repeatedly declared that Obama was raising taxes. McCain argued that, in the country's current economic crisis, no one should be getting higher taxes.

Especially rich people - rich people love John McCain.

The argument boils town to the pure democratic and republican views on taxes. Republicans want to keep the money they make, democrats want to "spread the wealth." And that's not getting settled any time soon.

Joe the Plumber's had his fifteen minutes of fame. We've heard the struggle of this real-life Mario and he crawls out of his economic hole because he can't purchase the company he works for.

Poor Joe, his life's going down the drain.