Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for November 01, 2008
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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Investigation Into Anti-American Elements In U.S. Government Anti-American Activity: Barack Obama's proposal to raise the tax rate on the top income bracket from 35¢ to 39¢ -- a shamelessly Socialist redistribution of wealth. Summary of Results: Shockingly, we found that many commies, pinkos and subversives with ideas far more radical even than Obama's had already infiltrated the highest reaches of American government and political philosophy. Adam Smith Wrote that it's reasonable for the wealthy to pay taxes at a higher rate than the poor. We were very surprised to find out that the FOUNDER OF CAPITALISM, who died 28 years before Karl Marx was born, was a dirty, stinking commie. Bill "Hammer and Sickle" Clinton Under Clinton's evil anti-American reign, the tax rate on the top bracket was the same 39% Obama is proposing, and America suffered through the longest economic expansion in its history. Dwight "Bolshevik" Eisenhower Makes Obama look like Gordan Gekko. Under his presidency (with a Republican congress), the U.S. had a 91% top tax rate. Welcome to the collective, Ike. Richard "The Red" Nixon Top tax bracket under Nixon's spread-the-wealth regime: 70%. There was a certain commie hunter congressman from California in the 1950s who would have liked to have gotten his hands on this pinko. John McCain In 2001, voted AGAINST lowering the top tax rate from 39% to Bush's proposed 35$. "Comrade" McCain defended the progressive tax system, denying that it's Socialism: "When you reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more." CONCLUSION: Suspect many more Americans believe in this commie so-called "progressive tax system." RECOMMENDATION: Domestic spying, enhanced interrogations, purges, re-education gulags -- to root out such radicals and undesirables. These measures must be taken to ensure pro-American values in the motherland.
runar about 16 years ago
Someone ought to hand this information over to Michele Bachmann so she can begin her witch hunt.
hcaulfield about 16 years ago
I find it so hilarious how so many americans call a progressive tax or redistribution of wealth socialism, these are such natural elements of the modern state that it’s hard to believe such backwards thinking, great strip today.
zenrider about 16 years ago
typical socialist…paying taxes is patriotic huh…unsubscribing this idiotic author.
tukla_ratte about 16 years ago
Zenrider: Typical neocon, crying because facts don’t support your dogma.
kryzchek about 16 years ago
McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin, not California.
tobybartels about 16 years ago
Brendon: But Nixon was a Senator from California (from 1951 to 1953, and a House Representative before that).
runar about 16 years ago
Brendon, the cartoonist is obviously referring to Nixon, because McCarthy never served as a congressman; his first federal-level office was as a senator, and Nixon was also something of a commie-hunter at the time.
runar about 16 years ago
My state is one of those that sends more tax money to the feds than it gets back. Alaska is #1 in getting more than it gives.
vcrdr1 about 16 years ago
act now and get your autographed mao pic and hannity light sabre. to combat the bullshit.
asjmb about 16 years ago
What amazes me is the vitriol spewed about the comment that paying taxes is patriotic. Is it being suggested that tax evasion is patriotic (as opposed to, say, felonious)? If as much time was spent ensuring that tax money was spent wisely and fairly as is spent whining about the fact of taxes, we might be in a better financial position.