This Means War!
September 22nd, 2011 | Editorial Cartoons | 4 Comments
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You knew this was inevitable. The Republicans have fallen back on their tried-and-true talking point, the one they use every time anyone asks for some simple fairness in the tax code. It’s class warfare. Never mind that the wealth of the nation has shifted dramatically to the richest Americans, that, in fact, America now boasts an income inequality that would make a Third World despot blush. One of the reasons we’re mired in this recession is that the middle class has lost so much economic clout it can’t spend what it used to, and it’s getting worse day by day. In saner times, politicians understood the value of a progressive tax structure. Now one party fights like a cornered animal to protect the assets of those who need the least protection, and ignores the needs of the rest of us. They call progressive taxes, dreisively, “redistribution of wealth,” as though that’s a bad thing. Redistributing wealth is what governments do, at least when they’re doing their job. They take our tax money and give it to soldiers, policemen, firemen, sewage workers, trash collectors and the others we hire to keep our country functioning, and we take slightly more from the wealthy because, well, they can afford it, leaving the rest of us with enough to buy a few luxuries and keep the economy humming. When things get out of whack, as they are now, and we ask to restore what’s worked in the past, and it’s “class warfare.” As Warren Buffet famously noted, it’s a war the rich have already won.
I was watching a documentary about FDR the other day, and his famous speech after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor seemed to fit perfectly. Thus, this cartoon.
Topics: opinion; cartoon; class warfare; GOP; Republican Party; Obama; taxes; Bush tax cuts
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How far in advance do you have to submit your cartoons to the White House for the necessary Imprimatur?
Jeremy – go hang out on your tea bagger websites. Puh-leeze. Let us moderates and fair minded folks have our fun. Oh, right. You guys have no sense of humor. My apologies, sire.
clearly and again we have the diagnosis for the Ts, do one thing and say another in opposition. here we have, yet again, the class warfare of the rich trying so very hard, now out open blatantly, to take all the money. they just love no risk and all gain gambling the money of the people. I object to the term, class warfare, yet they brought it into the room, so we hold up the mirror to them, and, smash it. They are, apparently, incapable of seeing themselves in the mirror in the true light of day and reality.
I do not think anyone has a problem with capitalism. The problem is, we do not have capitalism. Rather we have fraud, thievery, deceipt, corruption, political/legal maniipulation, gerrymandering, and a drive to put down and keep down people using poor education, lack of health care, lack of work, lack of decent consideration, lack of unity, anti-americanism, anti-constitutionism, on a horrendous scale to cominate and to control the people. surely they will fail and fall as have all such dictatorial regimes throughout history.