Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 25, 2011

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    comicgos  over 13 years ago

    That’s all that really counts!

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    EarlWash  over 13 years ago

    …and talk Congress into taxing big corp more so they can pass the cost onto all the rest of us. Big corp absorb taxes, Oh yeh, sure…that’l be the day.

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    Big corporations already own Congress and the Supreme Court.

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    Darkforce, the same nine who declared unions the same.At least you give your money to the corporation to buy Congressmen, er lobbiests. I never paid union dues voluntarily. Think about it.

    Corporation tax, 35% Personal income tax on dividends, 35%. That’s a lot of tax dollars. Think they ought to have a say in how it’s spent?

    Loopholes! They got loopholes! Yeah, all you got is mortgage interest deduction, personal deduction, medical, educational, child credit,over 65 and blind, and need I go on? What % of your income actually gets taxed? At what rate? 17%? Do your local taxes pay for you 2 kids education? Yup, darned rich with their loopholes. Let’s get rid of them all.

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    Brockie  over 13 years ago

    The slippery slope and guess what is at the bottom….

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    delicado  over 13 years ago

    Lawreader, corporations have had the rights of people since at least the 1890s. THis is one of the things that made unions necessary and inevitable in the first place. If you think corporations actually pay the taxes they are supposed to pay, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.

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    peter0423  over 13 years ago

    A Scented Flower — Theology aside, what makes you think atheists are above Congress, or politics? There’s certainly no evidence for that.

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    wicky  over 13 years ago

    Good one Wiley, tell it like it is.

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    cdward  over 13 years ago

    Lewreader, the top 100 US corporations pay an average of 6% in taxes because of all the fine work their lawyers and pocket-congresspeople do for them. In contrast, those same corporations pay often higher than %35 in other countries in which they operate. BTW, even foreign corporations are skipping out on taxes here. So - other countries are getting our business, we’re paying them taxes, and not paying ourselves. Hmmmm.

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    roctor  over 13 years ago

    Unions and corps created equal? Soon as corps got private status. ,They unleashed thier tea bagger financial scheme to buy govs into the big desks to undo collective bargaining.

    Scaaty, they wouldn’t wear the cross and other chinese bling on their coats as a voting base tool. Secretly saying, “A vote for me is a vote against your own self interest”.

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    FlashfyreSP  over 13 years ago

    Hey, Lewreader… Here’s a bumper sticker for you “free marketeers”:

    “Freedom Ain’t Free - Pay Your Share”

    Now, when corporations actually PAY their taxes, like I do, then MAYBE we’ll start seeing more money in the national coffers.

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    Lynda Dahl Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Of course, those are all lobbyists sitting around that conference table.

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    Lynda Dahl Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Of course, those are all lobbyists sitting around that conference table.

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    Can't Sleep  over 13 years ago

    Ouch! Reality hurts.

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    Potrzebie  over 13 years ago

    The meek shall inherit the earth, for they are too weak to refuse it!

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    ridits  over 13 years ago

    @ladyfingers86 Have you ever read the first NS comics, they were all about politics.

    @Everyone else, you are all a bunch of dingdongs with none of you having done any of your home work. If you are going to make statements like yours, research before you speak, also give your sources. If you can’t give your source of information, than your statement is just your opinion and nothing more.

    Now on a side note, let’s get back to talk about things “in” the comic like the goofy smiles. The fact that only seven of the nine are reading what is in front of them, or that one of the is using an Ipad and he is the only one without a cup of coffee.

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    1OldDude  over 13 years ago

    Corporations do not pay ANY taxes. They are merely a conduit, given that their customers/clients furnish all the funds corps have. How many of you benefit from the phony mortgage/medical/charity deductions? We meeks can at least die knowing we did not screw others, for what it’s worth. Lovin+Lovin=Livin, In my meek opinion.PEACE

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    conean  over 13 years ago

    Wiley had captured in a nutshell the reason the entire political process in this country has become so much entertainment for the masses but, has absolutely no meaning or value. Sheer genius!

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    OneDayAtATime  over 13 years ago

    When more than 70% of federal spending goes directly to individuals, I have a hard time believing that CEOs are who really owns congress. It just doesn’t make sense. It looks like socialists are getting what they want a lot more of what they want than the corporations.

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    rowena28 Premium Member over 13 years ago

    @ladyfingers86: I disagree. Wiley’s political comics are always clever & spot on.

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    Barbaratoo  over 13 years ago

    @Nab…The movie “You Can’t Take it With You” shows how honest and trustworthy big business was…NOT! The bigwig was only out to put everyone else out of business so he could control a whole block. The lead character wouldn’t sell his property which put the kabosh on the whole thing. There was a kind of happy ending but things weren’t as great as you make them out to be.

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 13 years ago

    @pdenman: AMEN!!!

    @Lewdreader: Show me an honest corporation and I’ll show you Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and aliens. Despite all the hot air we hear about “we care” from corps, the only thing they really care about is the bottom line. And where else in the world but the very country that created these monsters in the form we know and loathe today will we find them literally owning the government? It’s the golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

    And let’s not forget the ones who helped create these monsters. ::Holds up a mirror to himself and every other consumer in the world::

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    ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Consumers end up paying all corporate taxes. Taxpayers cover corporate bailouts. Everybody wins!

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    DjGuardian  over 13 years ago

    HA! Now that’s good stuff Wiley.

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    Dtroutma  over 13 years ago

    Wiley again has the big picture in a single one.

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    Mokoyombi  over 13 years ago

    “The Lord Giveth, The Government Taketh Away.”

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    yuggib  over 13 years ago

    I think everyone that is complaining about corporations and what they pay or do not pay in taxes is forgetting something: without these businesses, how would we be able to live the life of plenty that we do? Without Kellogg, Post and General Mills, where would you obtain your breakfast? Without Albertson’s, Kroger and Safeway, how would you do just about anything? And for many of us, without big business, what would we do for an income? I worked on a farm once, way to hard a days work for little in return, no way would I want to do that to “earn” my daily bread.

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    LeStats  over 13 years ago

    I’ll never forget that image of John Boehner handing out CASH on the floor of the house a couple of years ago!!!

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    Jules934  over 13 years ago

    Maybe it does follow after all.

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    puddleglum1066  over 13 years ago

    Corporations were declared to be persons by the Supreme Court in the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad case of 1886. There is controversy around this, as some maintain that the court itself never declared the corporation to be legally a person, but that the interpretation was inserted by a law clerk sympathetic to the railroad. Oddly enough, the justification for this “personhood” was rooted in the 14th amendment (the one giving former slaves full rights), and today you’ll find there are far more 14th amendment cases about the rights of corporations than there ever were about the rights of former slaves.

    Robert Reich (“Supercapitalism”) has proposed that the law be amended to explicitly restrict “personhood” to real living people. This would do away with both corporate lobbying and corporate income taxes (as only people can pay taxes). Under such a plan, a company’s taxes would be paid by its shareholders, on their share of the corporate profits (what? shareholders would see the profits instead of executives?), and lobbying/political donations would be strictly limited not only to humans but to citizens (avoiding the situation where a foreign-controlled corporation can lobby and run political advertising to influence government for the good of a foreign nation). Seems like a good deal to me.

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    Biltil Premium Member over 13 years ago

    I hope they budgeted for the election this time, would hate to have to bail them out…

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    MisngNOLA  over 13 years ago

    puddle, correct me if I’m wrong, but is it not already illegal for any foreign entity, be it personal or corporate, to donate to a political campaign? And isn’t that the issue Al Gore came up against when taking “contributions” from Chinese nuns at a fund raiser in California?

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    ilsapadu  over 13 years ago

    All the same, they’ll be alone in a cold grey world in a shack with one chair. No really. Believe me, I’m the one to believe.

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    prrdh  over 13 years ago

    They only own part of Congress; AFSCME owns the rest. And it’s only a leasehold, with the rental payments set at the whim of the Republicrats.

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    spehnec  over 13 years ago

    Our Founding Fathers already established term limits by giving us the power to vote out bad representatives every two years. We can reward good representatives by voting to give them their jobs back. If bad congressmen are being re-elected term after term, the problem is with the VOTERS. And too many voters are “single issue voters”, like the guy here who said he doesn’t care what they do as long as he has his guns. Time to get educated and VOTE.

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