Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 20, 2013
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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling 1980 CHANGE IN SHARE OF INCOME vs. 1979, after taxes Bottom 20% Middle 20% Hound: The government needs to LOWER TAXES on the rich! Top 1% 1987 CHANGE IN SHAPE OF INCOME Hound: The government needs to DEREGULATE the economy! 1994 Hound: The government needs to allow MERGERS and QUASI-MONOPOLIES! 2003 Hound: The government needs to give my company SUBSIDIES, TAX BREAKS and GIVEAWAYS! 2009 Hound: The government needs the FED to fight INFLATION, NOT UNEMPLOYMENT! 2013 Lucky Ducky: I think something needs to be done about INCOME INEQUALITY! Hound: HEY! THE GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS!
Randy B Premium Member about 11 years ago
Oh, man.Much too painfully true.
jazzmoose about 11 years ago
There it is.
braindead Premium Member about 11 years ago
It is still astonishing to me that the Republicans/Fox “news” viewers on these boards see no problem with the current and growing amount of wealth inequality.
edclectic about 11 years ago
Same as it ever was…
kapock about 11 years ago
Excuse me, but thanks to big government, that freeloading duck still has like three coins. Lucky Ducky!!!
carlosrivers about 11 years ago
to braindead08because that’s what they’re told by fox news; fox news also says don’t go anywhere else for information, we’ll tell you what you need to know, and they don’t.
ajnotales about 11 years ago
Very sad, and I fear, an irreversible trend? Has the 1% finally achieved enough power and political control that they’ve reached the tipping point? Democratic revolution may have been possible at one point in time: I suspect it would be a pointless exercise in this age. I’m not a pessimist by nature, but I’m not feeling very optimistic these days.
Linguist about 11 years ago
In other countries, after years of oppression and financial inequality, the poor rose up in rebellion.Not that it did them much good. One set of greedy #$%X&$ was replaced by another and the rest remained the same. All that changed was political ideology.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 11 years ago
Current events?
“Care for us! True, indeed! They ne’er cared for usyet: suffer us to famish, and their store-housescrammed with grain; make edicts for usury, tosupport usurers; repeal daily any wholesome actestablished against the rich, and provide morepiercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrainthe poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; andthere’s all the love they bear us.”
Nope, Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus”, but pretty much the state of affairs throughout the ages.
The Real Zarth Arn about 11 years ago
All we have to do is give the rich even MORE money, and it will start trickling down to the rest of us. One of these days.
Tinman Premium Member about 11 years ago
I think the minimum wage should be $50.00 an hour. That sounds fair. The government should provide automobiles and the insurance. They provide phones and housing, why not cars? There should be guarantees for life. Screw the rich SOBs. They don’t work. As for me, I vote for a living.
Pjbflyn about 11 years ago
Is that one of them thar Dynasty Ducks?
3hourtour Premium Member about 11 years ago
….so they could hire 400 employees without cost to their company!?!..
mmmobb about 11 years ago
sniveling, weak-minded mdavis4183
ickymungmung about 11 years ago
mordant, accurate mmmobb…