When you find out the game is rigged AND who rigged it, a decent respect for the opinions of others requires that you march, wave some signs, etc…before trundling out the solar-powered, electronically controlled cutting-edge guillotines.
That’s the OLD dream – For the last 25 years that has not been true. It’s harder to get a job because of automation and the fact that corporations prefer to pay slave wages in other countries. You can’t keep a job even if you’re the best because they close factories and move them to other countries where workers have little or no standing. Nice dream. The business of corporations is to make money, not to make their community a good place to live.
Hard working People get thrown out of their houses because they cannot pay the great taxes that they lay on us so they (the government) can give free stuff to illegals and those who refuse to work
Apparently I need to explain this to you again…When the cartoon is dealing in political satire, then, by all means, comment on the political issue at hand. What I have a problem with here is when certain people somehow feel the need to pontificate their political views when the cartoon of the day has absolutely nothing to do with politics.
Interesting as the libs said the same thing in the 70’s and 80’s. What happened then? Two drop-outs started the best companies ever. How did they do that WITHOUT government help? Wait, oh yeah, hard work and finding investors to foot the bill until successful.
Funny how that works without government intervention.
I have to laugh at the tiny minds that complain of taxes and how working on a assembly line is lowly work. The average taxes paid by the 99 percenters is 21%…much more than paid by the 1%. The best the real middle class had it was when workers were highly Union. Listening to the wanta be;s has ruined the Country. They think by supporting the rich they’ll be rich
If he’s employed and paying taxes, they are in the top 53%. The “99%” are only the “99%” in their heads, and they are being used by the real 1%, most of whom are “Old Money” and working in government.
Go back and read again what Wiley said: .“When the cartoon is dealing in political satire, then, by all means, comment on the political issue at hand. What I have a problem with here is when certain people somehow feel the need to pontificate their political views when the cartoon of the day has absolutely nothing to do with politics.”.…That is, political comments that are non sequiturs. :) We have several such individuals here..Unfortunately, we’re living in such politically trigger-happy times that you could say “nice day” and touch off an ideological rant.
Wealth is a commodity. It doesn’t have an absolute value, in that what $1 or $100 or $1,000,000 can buy is dependant upon inlation, and theoretically the total value of relative prosperity can go up (the “rising tide which lifts all boats”), but in real-world terms if you want to keep the poor from being poor the money has to come from SOMEWHERE, and it can only come from those who already have a surplus…an overwhelming surplus, in the case of the 1% of the 1%.
Redistribution of the wealth is necessary and inevitable. It is not that some people have more than others that is the problem, and unless everybody had exactly the same amount there would ALWAYS be a 1% (and a 1% of the 1%), but that so many have so little while so few have so much is unconscienable. The redistribution COULD be done by hiring more workers and paying them higher salaries, but this would necessarily mean operating on a narrower profit margin, which would be (ahem) “anti-Business”; the shareholders wouldn’t allow it. So it seems that the ONLY way to free up the stockpiled capital (which the system is engineered to keep funneling upwards into fewer and fewer hands) is through taxes, even if it’s only to pay for social programs which alleviate the effects of poverty without directly ending it.
The Upper Class has done a remarkable job of snookering the Middle Class into believing that it’s the Lower Class which is preventing them (the MC) from getting rich…
Like, who would want to be in the top 1%? Pillaging poor countries for resources, allowing your companies to do ghastly things to people in the name of the almighty buck… That’s living on blood money if you ask me (and, to me, that’s NO way to live). “There’s gotta be a way, a better way, a better way!…”. Oh, also, like as if they care if the people stand in the street waving their signs, they’d say “suffer!”… Like, it makes no difference to them, I think… Though, it’s an interesting thought the author posed, “The only fair tax is no tax…”. Then, we’d rely on the general good of the public to build their own roadways, make and keep all their schools looking nice, plant trees where they need to go, and to help families in need, think it could happen? (Maybe if the liars, cheats, and thieves didn’t exist and we were all perfect… I’ll play the devils advocate… ANARCHY!!! :))
The whole pulling oneself up by the bootstraps things doesn’t work when someone is physically born behind the eight ball (health challenges as a result of poor conditions in the womb, things the family is unable to do for a child during prenancy and the rest of the course of their life), also, I think the younger generation is suffering illnesses as a result of being raised on fast food, polluted air, chemicals, etc…
@LameRandomNameSo if the US stole from the top 1/10 of 1% for 9 years, bankrupted them and ruined their businesses along with all the jobs they created, we would be able to pay off a whole half year worth of spending? Great idea…
I have an idea: why don’t you make your own comic strip about the rich and how the evil lefties are ruining their lives? It’d be hilarious.To quote Dogsniff……“Sarcasm, ar ar ar”
First sign is correct, second sign? I wish it was but how else can you pay the polce, fire, and military? I wish I had all the answers, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be one out there. As long as humans are running the show there will be corruption. What we need is a Godarchy.
Micah 4:1-7
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make [them] afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it].
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
People always say taxes are the problem, yet we have the lowest taxes in the world in general, and our income tax is the lowest it’s ever been for all levels of income since it was established…The problem is wages….Remember, high unemployment is good for businesses that want cheap labor. When there are five people for every job, people are willing to work for nothing, just for the insurance…
Wiley has touched on why the gullible keep voting for conservatives. They think that, someday, maybe, if the follow the rules, they’ll be invited to the table. It was the same way the plantation owners kept their slaves from revolting – follow the rules and you’ll go to heaven. LOL
A lot of people lost their homes altho they were still working because the banks upped the “variable mortgage” amount. I’m so glad I paid cash for a smaller house that I could afford — the bank can’t touch it. (I know I still have to watch out for eminent domain, but there’s always something.)
I did my time in the armed forces, then did my time working 9 to 5 … and now I’m doing my time searching for income to supplement my retirement. Still happy in spite of it all.
minamahal about 13 years ago
None, if you get what you want
doc white about 13 years ago
Ask the cat.He has a seat at the table.
tigre1 about 13 years ago
When you find out the game is rigged AND who rigged it, a decent respect for the opinions of others requires that you march, wave some signs, etc…before trundling out the solar-powered, electronically controlled cutting-edge guillotines.
AKHenderson Premium Member about 13 years ago
Well, you can’t help the poor by taxing the rich. Not when it’s an army of three-card monte dealers levying the taxes. Cue Battson D. Belfry…
stevetalley7497 about 13 years ago
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paulproteus48640 about 13 years ago
if history has taught us anything it is that to be truely successful in this country you must lie, cheat and steal
cdward about 13 years ago
That’s the OLD dream – For the last 25 years that has not been true. It’s harder to get a job because of automation and the fact that corporations prefer to pay slave wages in other countries. You can’t keep a job even if you’re the best because they close factories and move them to other countries where workers have little or no standing. Nice dream. The business of corporations is to make money, not to make their community a good place to live.
roctor about 13 years ago
Just because he’s waiting to hit the powerball.This still won’t make them a member of the club.
wicky about 13 years ago
Hard working People get thrown out of their houses because they cannot pay the great taxes that they lay on us so they (the government) can give free stuff to illegals and those who refuse to work
tripwire45 about 13 years ago
@Dogsniff: How can the author disdain political statements if he’s making one?
psychlady about 13 years ago
Probably WAY to many!
cpl.jarhead about 13 years ago
These comics are good but bring back Captin Edd and thegirls
WaitingMan about 13 years ago
Republican/Tea-Party math; Everyone can be a member of the 1%. Don’t think about it too hard. Most people who believe in the R/T-P don’t think at all.
Wiley creator about 13 years ago
Apparently I need to explain this to you again…When the cartoon is dealing in political satire, then, by all means, comment on the political issue at hand. What I have a problem with here is when certain people somehow feel the need to pontificate their political views when the cartoon of the day has absolutely nothing to do with politics.
I hope that clears it up for you.
ReaderLady about 13 years ago
I’ve been wondering the same question, and my name isn’t Muriel. I actually lol-ed at this! Thanks, I needed it.
Sodbuster27 about 13 years ago
Interesting as the libs said the same thing in the 70’s and 80’s. What happened then? Two drop-outs started the best companies ever. How did they do that WITHOUT government help? Wait, oh yeah, hard work and finding investors to foot the bill until successful.
Funny how that works without government intervention.
hancel about 13 years ago
I have to laugh at the tiny minds that complain of taxes and how working on a assembly line is lowly work. The average taxes paid by the 99 percenters is 21%…much more than paid by the 1%. The best the real middle class had it was when workers were highly Union. Listening to the wanta be;s has ruined the Country. They think by supporting the rich they’ll be rich
The Life I Draw Upon about 13 years ago
Keep the rich from influencing Congress!
Wait a minute. They are the rich.
I mean if you had a six figure income, worked a few months, paid no taxes, took long vacations, plus voted yourself pay raises what would you be?
pswhitlark about 13 years ago
If he’s employed and paying taxes, they are in the top 53%. The “99%” are only the “99%” in their heads, and they are being used by the real 1%, most of whom are “Old Money” and working in government.
PShaw0423 about 13 years ago
Go back and read again what Wiley said: .“When the cartoon is dealing in political satire, then, by all means, comment on the political issue at hand. What I have a problem with here is when certain people somehow feel the need to pontificate their political views when the cartoon of the day has absolutely nothing to do with politics.”.…That is, political comments that are non sequiturs. :) We have several such individuals here..Unfortunately, we’re living in such politically trigger-happy times that you could say “nice day” and touch off an ideological rant.
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
“You can’t help the poor by taxing the rich.”
Wealth is a commodity. It doesn’t have an absolute value, in that what $1 or $100 or $1,000,000 can buy is dependant upon inlation, and theoretically the total value of relative prosperity can go up (the “rising tide which lifts all boats”), but in real-world terms if you want to keep the poor from being poor the money has to come from SOMEWHERE, and it can only come from those who already have a surplus…an overwhelming surplus, in the case of the 1% of the 1%.
Redistribution of the wealth is necessary and inevitable. It is not that some people have more than others that is the problem, and unless everybody had exactly the same amount there would ALWAYS be a 1% (and a 1% of the 1%), but that so many have so little while so few have so much is unconscienable. The redistribution COULD be done by hiring more workers and paying them higher salaries, but this would necessarily mean operating on a narrower profit margin, which would be (ahem) “anti-Business”; the shareholders wouldn’t allow it. So it seems that the ONLY way to free up the stockpiled capital (which the system is engineered to keep funneling upwards into fewer and fewer hands) is through taxes, even if it’s only to pay for social programs which alleviate the effects of poverty without directly ending it.
The Upper Class has done a remarkable job of snookering the Middle Class into believing that it’s the Lower Class which is preventing them (the MC) from getting rich…
breed63 about 13 years ago
Re: The Muriel Inquisition….
There is nothing more pathetic than a poor Republican.
Blossoming about 13 years ago
Like, who would want to be in the top 1%? Pillaging poor countries for resources, allowing your companies to do ghastly things to people in the name of the almighty buck… That’s living on blood money if you ask me (and, to me, that’s NO way to live). “There’s gotta be a way, a better way, a better way!…”. Oh, also, like as if they care if the people stand in the street waving their signs, they’d say “suffer!”… Like, it makes no difference to them, I think… Though, it’s an interesting thought the author posed, “The only fair tax is no tax…”. Then, we’d rely on the general good of the public to build their own roadways, make and keep all their schools looking nice, plant trees where they need to go, and to help families in need, think it could happen? (Maybe if the liars, cheats, and thieves didn’t exist and we were all perfect… I’ll play the devils advocate… ANARCHY!!! :))
Blossoming about 13 years ago
The whole pulling oneself up by the bootstraps things doesn’t work when someone is physically born behind the eight ball (health challenges as a result of poor conditions in the womb, things the family is unable to do for a child during prenancy and the rest of the course of their life), also, I think the younger generation is suffering illnesses as a result of being raised on fast food, polluted air, chemicals, etc…
sleepeeg3 about 13 years ago
I guess Wiley is advocating for the bottom 99% to mooch off the top 1%?
sleepeeg3 about 13 years ago
@LameRandomNameSo if the US stole from the top 1/10 of 1% for 9 years, bankrupted them and ruined their businesses along with all the jobs they created, we would be able to pay off a whole half year worth of spending? Great idea…
This is why our country is bankrupt.
MelvinLott about 13 years ago
I have an idea: why don’t you make your own comic strip about the rich and how the evil lefties are ruining their lives? It’d be hilarious.To quote Dogsniff……“Sarcasm, ar ar ar”
steelersneo about 13 years ago
First sign is correct, second sign? I wish it was but how else can you pay the polce, fire, and military? I wish I had all the answers, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be one out there. As long as humans are running the show there will be corruption. What we need is a Godarchy.
Micah 4:1-7
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make [them] afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it].
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
yawon about 13 years ago
Muriel looks like she’s helping a lot with this.
Varnes about 13 years ago
People always say taxes are the problem, yet we have the lowest taxes in the world in general, and our income tax is the lowest it’s ever been for all levels of income since it was established…The problem is wages….Remember, high unemployment is good for businesses that want cheap labor. When there are five people for every job, people are willing to work for nothing, just for the insurance…
tnazar about 13 years ago
Wiley has touched on why the gullible keep voting for conservatives. They think that, someday, maybe, if the follow the rules, they’ll be invited to the table. It was the same way the plantation owners kept their slaves from revolting – follow the rules and you’ll go to heaven. LOL
BillWa about 13 years ago
Yhe best part is the sign is totally right, you can’t tax your way to prosperity.
lindz.coop Premium Member about 13 years ago
A lot of people lost their homes altho they were still working because the banks upped the “variable mortgage” amount. I’m so glad I paid cash for a smaller house that I could afford — the bank can’t touch it. (I know I still have to watch out for eminent domain, but there’s always something.)
APersonOfInterest about 13 years ago
I did my time in the armed forces, then did my time working 9 to 5 … and now I’m doing my time searching for income to supplement my retirement. Still happy in spite of it all.
Blossoming about 13 years ago
YES! I finally get it..