Originally Posted by BobG

Because it wasn't an honest question. Honest would have been, "I make 40k but I have a dream to own my bosses business which makes $250k one day." Then Obama would have said, "well great Joe, you fall under 250k so you will get a tax cut under my plan which will help you save money to buy that business." "Furthermore, even when you do buy it, since you will not take home 250k from it for sometime (because of overhead, expenses...), you will continue to save, likely through my entire term(s)." Joe knew that spelling it out clearly and honestly would not have served his agenda well, which practically, logically, clearly, every way you look at it, must not have anything to do with taxes. What Joe did is called subterfuge and it's pretty slick actually.