h/t New York Post
This is an excellent video showing the full conversation between “Joe the Plumber” and Barack Obama. Obama is clearly off script here, because he lets it slip that his tax plan is really to “spread the wealth around” (translation: income redistribution).
Close to 40% of Americans pay no income tax! So how can someone who pays nothing, get a tax cut? Answer: They can’t! It’s really pretty simple. If you don’t pay taxes, you can’t get a tax cut!
The Wall Street Journal published a fine article this week explaining how Barack Obama plans to give a “tax cut” to 95% of Americans. It has to do with redefining what a “tax cut” is. A Barack Obama “tax cut” to someone who doesn’t pay any taxes turns out to be a check from the government. Call it what you want….welfare, income redistribution, etcetera….but it’s no tax cut.
When you take money from one group and give it to another, it’s called income redistribution and it isn’t American. Where is the federal government given power to redistribute income? How do they get to determine how much each person is entitled to? Why does Barack Obama get to decide what is enough? “$250,000 a year is enough for you, so I’m going to take it from you and give it to someone else.” I guess the American dream only goes up to $250,000 a year now.
Barack Obama plans to redistribute income and wealth in this country via the tax code and has no business becoming our next president.
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Conservemus 
The only attempt I have heard at trying to explain how to give a tax cut to someone who pays no taxes is to consider payroll taxes as part of the taxpayer’s contribution to the taxing system. However, this explanation was not from anyone at Obama HQ, but rather from someone trying to give Obama the benefit of the doubt regarding his lack of mathematical aptitude.
I would also guess that the $250K number is one that starts high and works its way down and will not have an index to inflation regarding his policies around this magical figure of excessive economic prosperity.