Business man? I thought Ziggy was more ‘diner style’. What does he do? He’s always flying around and dining out. I thought he needed either a job or a loan like the rest of us?
The businessman’s lunch is like the regular lunch except that when it fails, the management asks the government for billions of taxpayers’ dollars for a bailout. Then your insurance is cancelled because the heartburn is a pre-existing condition. When you get back to work after lunch, you find that your job has been outsourced to Lower Slobovia and you’re now unemployed. Meanwhile, your Republican senator has blocked passage of extended unemployment benefits, so your mortgage goes into default and you’re homeless as well, and Rush Limbaugh is telling you it’s all Obama’s fault.
How many of those commenting actually had their income taxes go up this year? Unless you are pretty well off, your income taxes will have been lower, not higher.
Ziggy is usually more thoughtful than this. Most people pay less than 28% in taxes and most of the expenditures come back as social security and medicare payments. General government only costs 3% of the tax revenue at the Federal level. In short, this is a cheap shot, not really Ziggy’s normal level of humor.
This type of strip also encourages the anti-tax, anti-government, and anti-American Americans (see some of the confused comments above).
The Duke 1 over 14 years ago
Figures!
ladywolf17 over 14 years ago
They gotta’ take something.
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
The government is always in your pocket somehow!
xsintricks over 14 years ago
Only half?
pamlicorat over 14 years ago
And it comes with two Martinis
lowellann over 14 years ago
Caption should read: except the tax payers foot half of it.
stewartava over 14 years ago
Business man? I thought Ziggy was more ‘diner style’. What does he do? He’s always flying around and dining out. I thought he needed either a job or a loan like the rest of us?
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
funny, I thought the government spoon fed it to the really fat ones.
pdeason2 over 14 years ago
ladyfingers86 said, Then they must pay their share.
Well they do they just pay by taking our taxes and then raising them again so we think that they payed for it.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
You mean the government taking my money then giving some back isn’t good economics?
mrslukeskywalker over 14 years ago
65% if you’re “rich”.
Spread that LUNCH around Ziggy, or the Marxists will do it for you.
starguy over 14 years ago
And Barry says, “thanks; now pay up, CHUMPS!”
runar over 14 years ago
The businessman’s lunch is like the regular lunch except that when it fails, the management asks the government for billions of taxpayers’ dollars for a bailout. Then your insurance is cancelled because the heartburn is a pre-existing condition. When you get back to work after lunch, you find that your job has been outsourced to Lower Slobovia and you’re now unemployed. Meanwhile, your Republican senator has blocked passage of extended unemployment benefits, so your mortgage goes into default and you’re homeless as well, and Rush Limbaugh is telling you it’s all Obama’s fault.
stewartava over 14 years ago
How many of those commenting actually had their income taxes go up this year? Unless you are pretty well off, your income taxes will have been lower, not higher.
SmokyStover over 14 years ago
Ziggy is usually more thoughtful than this. Most people pay less than 28% in taxes and most of the expenditures come back as social security and medicare payments. General government only costs 3% of the tax revenue at the Federal level. In short, this is a cheap shot, not really Ziggy’s normal level of humor.
This type of strip also encourages the anti-tax, anti-government, and anti-American Americans (see some of the confused comments above).