Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for May 04, 2010
May 03, 2010
May 05, 2010
Transcript:
...the businessman's lunch is just like the regular lunch, sir... except that the government eats half of it!
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).