Joe Wurzelbacher

So last nights debate was filled with more discussion about a plumber from Ohio than about the War in Iraq, and justifiably so if you ask me.
Plumber Joe was interviewed by Diane Sawyer this morning and she asked him that since he thought it was unfair to raise taxes on people making over $250,000 a year, then what about the people making $1M or $5M a year and if he thought the wealth should be spread around.
Joe replied "why should they be penalized for being succesfull and working hard to achieve the American Dream? If Obama's tax plan goes into affect, and he punishes people for working hard and making over $250,000 a year, what if they then decide that $150,000 is enough? So they rasie their taxes... where does it stop?"
Plumber Joe Wurzelbacher from Holland, Ohio... you my friend, are my new hero.
The consitution states in the 16th Amendment that "The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without aportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration"
Can someone smarter than me please explain to me where in the consitution it states you should be overtaxed for working harder and smarter than the neighbor next door, and achieving the "American Dream"?
Can someone please explain to me where in the consititution it provides for a socialist view of spreading the wealth? Higher taxation for the people who have EARNED more money is LEGAL THEFT and nothing more.
Explain to me where it is my responsibility in the constitution to pay more money than the deadbeat who pretends to be injured because he/she is just too damn lazy to work? Why should food and clothes, and ammenities be taken away from my children because I worked very hard to get those things, to give them to the family down the street who does not have those things becasue they refuse to go to work?
Please keep in mind when you read this that I am not a wealthy white kid from the suburbs. My parents were drug addicts, my mother was on wellfare my entire life, and I was homeless (actually living under a bridge, in homeless shelters, and in cars) for over two years as a child.
I worked very hard to get where I am, and I made a lot of money in the past several years. I paid a lot of income taxes for doing so. Last year I was forced to shut my business down and I lost over $60,000. I am not talking about $60K I borrowed and lost, I am talking about $60K of my own earned, and saved money that is now GONE. Did I receive wellfare, or health insurance for my children for being low income? No. My net income on last years tax return was $0. I lost my home, my business, and nearly my self-respect and sanity, but I knew all along I had the ability to rebound and get it all back. It was not the governments fault that the mortgage industry collapsed. They may have been able to do something about it to keep it from happening, but it is NOT their responsibility to do so. Looking back, I made a few bad decisions, at bad times, and did not have the financial backing to see me through the storm.
I work hard everyday to get back what I lost (note I said I LOST and not what the government caused me to lose) and this year I will make a modest income. My children don't have health insurance, but I don't feel it is the governments responsibility to give it to me. My home still has not been foreclosed on, though it should have been by now, but I do not believe it is the governments responsibility to bail me out.
I have my own bailout plan, similar to Joe the plumber in Ohio. Get off my ass, and do something about it. Work hard and find a way to get back on top instead of sitting around complaining about "how bad the goverment screwed us" and how I am going to "wait and see who gets elected and see what they do to help me out before I decide to help out myself."
Wake up people. Everyone and I do mean everyone has the freedom, and the power to do whatever they want to do in life. Go out and do it. Putting it all on the line and failing is more respectable than never going for it at all and depending on the government to bail me out>
The more we ask the government to fix our self-created problems, the less freedoms and consitutional rights we will have in the future. The moer we ask them to do for us, the more they will have to take from us to do so. Too much government, and too much regulation will cripple what is great about America; it's citizens, and our drive to achieve. If we allow the government to penalize the over-achievers, then what exactly is the American Dream?
Someone with views other than mine, please explain this to me. Anyone who has anything else to add, please feel free to do so.