Hey, Joe the Plumber, Flush It Out of Your Mind.

Hey, Joe, don't waste your time asking the presidential candidates what effect their tax policies will have on your hoped-to-be business ownership. They don't have anything to do with it besides recommending suggestions. It's those 435 people in the House of Representatives about which you need to worry. They're the ones who originate all bills for raising revenue. And that translates into tax policy.

So let's stop all of the grandstanding and all of the empty air and focus on what a president actually should be doing - and doesn't do.