Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 09, 2025

Did you ever notice that “The IRS” is spelled the same as “Theirs”?

If you buy US Savings Bonds now, you don’t even get a piece of paper anymore.

Bring on the DOGE!

The Pentagon has misplaced a few trillion dollars over the years…

If we give them some money, can we at least get some politicians (like the rich folks)?

Setting it on fire and throwing it down a manhole is a lot better than what some of our tax dollars have been spent on.

Wait’ll you see (and trust me,you won’t) what incoming President Drunk Uncle does with your shrinking income as he ignores the cost of living prices he campaigned on.

I have heard people complain that our government spends money like a drunk sailor. I disagree. At least a drunk sailor is only spending his OWN money.

Social Security and Medicare are supposed to be self-supporting. Our elected officials have the power to raise the payroll taxes to keep both programs in the black, but they are afraid to do so for fear of losing votes. Will those same members of Congress jump ship before both systems go in the red? Are we ready to accept a cut in monthly benefits of 17 to 25 percent by 2035?

Got THAT right!

Those that cry the loudest about paying taxes are the same ones that can most afford to pay taxes. Those that use the most of what taxes pay for cry the loudest about paying taxes. Such patriotic Americans.

Uncle Sam in in the unique position of being able to print more money as needed without being done for forgery.

Uncle Sam or Uncle Dopey Joe?

Psst! It’s a scam, you dumb pig!

Just put all the money in a pot and give everyone (employed) the same salary. Everyone would subsequently pay the same taxes.

It wouldn’t work of course. A brain surgeon wouldn’t be satisfied with earning as much as the waitress serving him coffee and managers couldn’t look down on shop floor staff for precisely the same reason.

The economy we’ve created depends on top dogs, greed and arrogance. They’re essential.

l must go now. It’s time for my meds.

Who isn’t terrible with money?

They’ve done nothing but cut the top tax rate for 40 years, and the result is more debt, less services, and an income gap that is truly obscene.

“Run Government like a business!” they say. As though any business would cut it’s own revenue and reduce service to pay for it.

You ain’t seen nothing yet! Wait till trump is finished giving all the millionaires their promised tax breaks!

Did you hear, Zuckerberg at MEDA says it’s OK With him if you LIE on Facebook, so you can now attempt to tell more lies then trump and possibly take his place in the Gennis Book!

I worked for the feds for years. I would welcome an explanation as coherent as, “I set the money on fire and threw it down a manhole.” Most of the time you just get a shrug.

Crazy Joe leaves in 11 days, 3 hours, and 57 minutes as of this comment

The way I’ve always heard it is that the government prints money for whatever they want, they don’t need taxes. Taxes are just to keep you from having money, and thus drive up the value of the dollar. Your faith in its value allows them to print more. Of course, they no longer “print”, they just add a zero in a computer.

money probably spent to cover Secret Service hotel rooms in Palm Beach

Sorry, Uncle Sam, Pig is out of money.

And yet liberals want bigger and bigger government poking their heads into every aspect of our lives.

They spent it on weapons of war instead of good things

Does Rump adding $8 trillion to our debt in 4 short years make the Republicans the fiscally conservative party?

Just another way of saying “I gave it to a billionaire.”

I love it, finally a place to get the truth

Today’s strip is kinda misleading in a way that the government will not “borrow” from the people, they just take what they say they “need”;)

I’m always amazed how quickly people respond to a comic strip by being nasty and name-calling anyone who disagrees with them. We’re Americans and we’ll get through whatever comes to us, we always have. Please think twice about what you post on a comic strip. We all come here to get a laugh.

This has been, Obvious News with Pig!

Tune in next week to learn what color grass is.

Corporations and the super wealthy run and own America. It has not been a democracy where people have much say for a long time.

“Setting it on fire and throwing it down a manhole” sounds like buying armaments and using them to kill a few people, creating more people to hate us in the future.

Once you recognize the truth of this comic, you start becoming a Libertarian.

And this is the problem with the under education of America. Money taken by the government is spent on salaries and goods, creating jobs for Americans. It is not burned, like so many seem to think. There is a balance between not enough taxation and too much, but, regardless, that money fuels the economy.

The government and most Americans have a lot in common—they both spend money like they have unlimited credit, and neither has a plan to pay it off.

No, that’s not what he does with it.

Come on Pastis, stop promoting this kind of ignorance, or your fellow citizens will start demanding macroeconomic policies that are guided by microeconomic policies. If they get really confused they might even turn to someone who declares bankruptcy for a living and ask him to balance the budget.

Tax nation of the World here (Denmark). Just as the comic suggests, it is not so much the money it is how they are spend.

Neither are we.

At least Uncle knows you ‘set’ things on fire, not ‘light’ things on fire, which I see increasingly. You light a match, but you don’t light a match on fire. I would recommend that you ‘set fire to’ your money, or whatever, but the other is acceptable.

Some more cash and he’ll show some sympathy for the folks burning in LA

Guess Pastis was recently audited. In any case I think this is an arc we can all agree with.

We need a Flat tax on gross income…..PERIOD! No deductions. Everybody should pay the same. No free ride.

More likely down a shi thole.

Trump can reduce t he debt by paying back the small fortune in bank loans he PERSONALLY OWES!!

“Well, a little bit went to cancer research, and a whole lot more to subsidies for tobacco farmers. Then there was the pittance for sustainable energy research and the billions propping up the fossil fuel industry. And let’s not forget the billions to help Ukraine defend themselves from an aggressive, fascistic imperialistic invader, and the trillions to help an aggressive, fascistic, imperialistic invader destroy Palestine. Or the $5 spent prosecuting violent insurrectionists, and the hundreds of millions to protect their vile leader for the rest of his treasonous life. Now, as for those military bases in 168 foreign countries……”

Is this Pastis trying to get on the good side of the washington post?

Got that right Pig……

USA 1776-2015

It was delightful to see all the real Presidents snubbing Dump today except Obama who had to maintain his dignity since he drew the short straw.

One wonders if Michelle was ill or just couldn’t bare the thought of sitting next to ‘that’…

In the last four years our ’sane uncle’… did not threaten our allied countries in NATO, rebuilt a major bridge, fed children, lowered Rx costs, promoted manufacturing computer chips in the US, and presided over the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6…..but go on with what Drunk Uncle tells you. The next 4 years will be noteworthy, but not how you think it will be for you personally.

Worry more about who is on the receiving end of those taxes, what contractors are getting rich.

When will people realize that this guy is simply drunk uncle?

We are so screwed.

We need a team of parents to give the government a monthly allowance. But only if they do their assigned chores.

There’s something huge

Red, white, and blue

That’s grazing in D.C.

It’s gobbling up the taxes

That are paid by you and me

It doesn’t seem to notice

We really can’t afford

The billions that it’s costing us

To pay its room and board

It doesn’t roam but seems content

To dwell on Capitol Hill

As long as trucks keep pulling up

With tons of green-back bills

We’ve got to feed the big guy

We really can’t forget

It has an awesome appetite

Tyrannosaurus Debt

The debt’s a monster problem

That we really can’t ignore

I guess we should be grateful

That it’s not a carnivore

We’ve got to keep on servicing

Our trillion dollar pet

It’s got a monster appetite

Tyrannosaurus Debt