Campaigning in Wisconsin, Vice President Biden met his match in a local small business owner.
It doesn’t have quite the snappy ring of “Joe the Plumber,” but it will do. Earlier today Joe Biden was in Wisconsin, trying to help Russ Feingold salvage his Senate run, and he stopped at a frozen custard stand. When he asked the proprietor how much the custard cost, the proprietor answered, “Nothing, just lower our taxes.”
Such encounters are always a danger any time statists venture out for their token frolics with the common folk, who are growing increasingly tired of the high tax burdens made necessary by, among other things, bloated civil service salaries.
