One morning Obama was brushing his teeth and the water was running and Obama reached under the sink to grab a hand towel and the pipe under the sink was leaking so Obama grabbed the yellow pages and called Joe the Plumber.
Joe the Plumber pulled up to the mansion Obama lived in and came inside, after evaluating the problem he informed Obama it was an easy fix and would take two minutes to fix.
Obama asked how much it would cost and Joe the Plumber replied $9,500.00.
Obama, shocked, asked why it cost so much. The plumber replied due to the Plumbing Act of 2009 any customer making over $250,000.00 paid an increased rate so that Plumbers could do jobs at cost plus 10% for the general public making less than that.
Obama said he would not pay that.
A week later the leak was worse and Obama had to begin to put a trash can under the sink.
He called other plumbers and the other plumbers told him if he did not get it fixed the problem would get worse and possibly flood the house at some point. Obama also asked for more quotes and the quotes came back in the same neighborhood due to the Plumbing Act of 2009 they could not do the work for less.
So Obama brought Joe the Plumber back to do the work and at this point asked what the final quote would be, Joe the Plumber said $21,000.00. Obama said but you told me $9,500.00 just two weeks ago.
Joe said that because of the new law, people were learning to do their own plumbing repairs and because there were less repairs there was less work and due to the decrease in work, prices had risen.
This is what happens when you raise taxes on the rich, less of them work, they choose to go to other countries to run their businesses or not work at all and what happens, ultimatly, government tax revenues actually fall not rise.
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