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Affordable Plumbing Act

Only weeks after leaving office on January 20, 2017, former president
Barack Hussein Obama discovers a leak under his sink, so he calls Joe
the Plumber to come out and fix it. Joe drives to Obama's new house,
which is located in a very exclusive, gated community near Chicago
where all the residents have a net income of more than $250,000 per
year.

Joe arrives and takes his tools into the house. Joe is led to the
guest bathroom that contains the leaky pipe under the sink. Joe
assesses the problem and tells Obama that it's an easy repair that
will take less than 10 minutes. Obama asks Joe how much it will cost.
Joe checks his rate chart and says, "$9,500."

"What?! $9,500?" Obama asks, stunned "But you said it's an easy
repair.Michelle will whip me if I pay a plumber that much!"

Joe says, "Yes, but what I do is charge those who make $250,000 per
year a much higher amount so I can fix the plumbing of poorer people
for free," explains Joe."This has always been my philosophy. As a
matter of fact, I lobbied the Democrat Congress, who passed this
philosophy into law. Now all plumbers must do business this way. It's
known as Affordable Plumbing Act of 2014'. I'm surprised you haven't
heard of it."

In spite of that, Obama tells Joe there's no way he's paying that much
for a small plumbing repair, so Joe leaves. Obama spends the next hour
flipping through the phone book calling for another plumber, but he
finds that all other plumbing businesses in the area have gone out of
business. Not wanting to pay Joe's price, Obama does nothing and the
leak goes unrepaired for several more days. A week later the leak is
so bad that Obama has had to put a bucket under the sink. Michelle is
not happy as she has Oprah and guests arriving the next morning. The
bucket fills up quickly and has to be emptied every hour and there's a
risk that the room will flood, so Obama calls Joe and pleads with him
to return.

Joe goes back to Obama's house, looks at the leaky pipe, checks his
new rate chart and says, "Let's see, this will now cost you $21,000."

Obama quickly fires back, "What! A few days ago you told me it would
cost $9,500!"

Joe explains, "Well, because of the 'Affordable Plumbing Act', a lot
of wealthier people are learning how to maintain and take care of
their own plumbing, so there are fewer payers into the plumbing
exchanges. As a result, the price I have to charge wealthy people like
you keeps rising. Not only that, but for some reason the demand for
plumbing work by those who get it for free has skyrocketed! There's a
long waiting list of those who need repairs but the amount we get
doesn't cover our costs. This unfortunately has put a lot of my fellow
plumbers out of business, they're not being replaced, and nobody is
going into the plumbing business because they know they can't make any
money at it. I'm hurting, too, all thanks to greedy rich people like
you who won't pay their fair share."