{"id":3537,"date":"2008-10-25T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2008-10-25T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T12:53:52","slug":"its-not-just-joe-the-plumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Its not just Joe the Plumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its not just Joe the Plumber that will be hurt by higher taxes and will stop hiring and spending and start firing and scrimping.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;Fred Ex&#8221; too. Big business, employing the rest of America that doesn&#8217;t work for Uncle Sam, is and will do much the same.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are few better people to ask about our current economic precipice than Mr.  Smith &#8212; or, as some people call him, &#8220;Fred Ex.&#8221; His company has $38 billion in  sales, employs four football stadiums full of workers, owns 300 jet airplanes,  and tens of thousands of trucks and vehicles. FedEx moves an incomprehensible  seven million packages each day to every corner of the globe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Broken Record: &#8220;Middle Class&#8221; Americans won&#8217;t care about lower taxes or a stimuless check in their hand if they have lost their job or are concerned they may.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122488966230768509.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\">Washington Is the Problem<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Look, our capital budget as we went into this year was about $3 billion. We  went out to Boeing in July for our board meeting to see the new triple seven,  [the Boeing 777] which we have bought. If we had a lower corporate tax rate with  the ability to expense capital expenditures, guess what? We&#8217;d buy more triple  sevens. We absolutely have to cut the corporate tax. Our current tax rate is  about 38%. Even Germany has a 25% rate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buying more Boeing 777&#8217;s, an American product; made in America by Americans, would mean more good-paying &#8220;Middle Class&#8221; American jobs. This is but one example. There are thousands of employers, large and small that face the same challenges, brought on by Washington&#8217;s corruption, mismanagement and liberal agendas.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal conservatives understand this. Liberals like Obama and his posse will ramrod their social engineering designs without regard for what damage it will do to the economy, hurting the very constituents they claim to work for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its not just Joe the Plumber that will be hurt by higher taxes and will stop hiring and spending and start firing and scrimping. It&#8217;s &#8220;Fred Ex&#8221; too. Big business, employing the rest of America that doesn&#8217;t work for Uncle Sam, is and will do much the same. There are few better people to ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}