Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 07, 2018

Very stable geniuses prefer to live in their own little world.

stop the voice once more! we’ve done it before-let’s do it again!!

In all fairness, if you can actually distill the entire tax plan down to a single page… I’m kind of impressed, really.

Of course it will hurt the Rump. He will be drowning in money.

And now that the “conservatives” have blown an even bigger hole in the budget in order to gift themselves, they will come after every other program to pay for it. No money for anything………except maybe 18 billion for the worlds biggest handball court. That, they can somehow afford.

If the tax plan were on one page, more people would actually read it, instead of basing their opinions on other’s opinions.

A paltry $1.1 billion gain could be seen as a loss by someone living in an alt-reality.

So far, my favorite part of Fire and Fury is how Ivanka ridicules her father for having a “scalp reduction” to try to lessen the bald spot (spot!) that covers the entire top of his head. If you cut off the comb-over, it must look like a zipper on top of his fat head.

One page tax plan: #1. How much did you make last year?

#2. If less then $500,000, send it ALL in. If over $500,000, keep it.

LOVE the painting in the background…

One flaw in this is that it shows him reading that one page. He doesn’t read at all. People tell him what it says.

Just like trying to talk to a Trump voter.

This tax bill is another example of how Congress is always looking out for the little (handed) people. ;-)

Donald John Liar was going to simplify the code and give tax cuts to everyone. Adding more than a thousand pages to the tax code. Adding 1.5 trillion dollars to to the deficit. Making permanent corporate tax cuts, but taking away the minimal cuts for the middle class in a few years. The Reagan and Bush tax cuts are still in place, yet only the few at the top have benefited. Remember how President Obama wanted to let them expire in 2010, but compromised by letting them continue for the greater good?

I’m so proud that the tax on my Social Security benefits are going to support the one per cent. Who needs education, health care or infrastructure when you have the richest people sucking up all the tax dollars. America, what a country!

$1.1 billion is a lot for someone who didn’t even have 1 billion in 2005.http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8100467

Many refer to this era as one dominated by the oligarchs, a word I prefer not to use. It sounds a little too benign since so many are unaware of the meaning. What is wrong with just calling them rich evil bastards?

I like the framed Time Magazine cover on the desk. Is that the cover from Mar-a-Lago?

A better, good quality, example of the humor that G. Trudeau produces in this strip.

It hurts the Twit-in-Chief in that his tax savings are only $1.1 billion rather than $1.10000005 billion.

Actually, they had to turn the summary into a TV special to catch Big Cheeto’s attention.

@jerrygfg

You mean how the Republicans borrow(1,500,000,000,000 dollars) and spend, and then pay interest for decades to give tax cuts to the corporations and stock holders who need it the least? How the accountants and lawyers are finding enormous loopholes avoid payments already? How come mega banks have been paying zero income tax in recent years? Where are the deficit scolds who screamed from 2009 to 2016?

Debt Crises! Hyperinflation! Skyrocketing Interest Rates! Squirrel!

Simple fact about the tax codes: roughly 90% of all those pages are EXEMPTIONS! This one is only slightly different, 99% is exemptions benefitting the top 1%, and the other 1% is a smoke-screen to keep the middle class from seeing how badly they’re being screwed.

Only 1.1 Billion? That hurts.

Actually the tax plan can be distilled down to a single sentence: “Screw the poor and the middle class and give it to the rich.” You know, the standard republican’t platform…

Where are all the Trump Disciples claiming that this is a real improvement in the tax code and now they will be able to file their tax returns on a post card?

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You know, it’s really, really simplified now.

Really

Love the “Time” cover in the last panel. He must have brought it up from Mar-A-Lago. No, he doubtless has a fake “Time” cover for each of his residences.

Poor fellow doesn’t speak Trumptongue, it’s just like parsletongue but more snaky and twisty.

Most of the new 1000 page tax bill are amendments to twist existing law into bigger deductions for the top 1%, for example they quadrupled the deduction on luxury vehicles…..

“150SEC. 13202. MODIFICATIONS TO DEPRECIATION LIMITATIONS ON LUXURY AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL USE PROPERTY LUXURY AUTOMOBILES.— IN GENERAL.—280F(a)(1)(A) is amended— in clause (i), by striking ‘‘$2,560’’ and inserting ‘‘$10,000’’, in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘$4,100’’8and inserting ‘‘$16,000’’, in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘$2,450’’ and inserting ‘‘$9,600’’, and in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘$1,475’’ and inserting ‘‘$5,760”

So the new tax bill contains the old tax bill with amendments…. so it’s just as confusing and long as before and favors those who donated to (i.e. bribed) those that wrote it.

Isn’t unfettered Capitalism great?

It is really sad that the dialogue in this strip isn’t really satirical; it could easily have been taken word-for-word from an actual Oval Office conversation.

It is really sad that the dialogue in this strip isn’t really satirical; it could easily have been taken word-for-word from an actual Oval Office conversation.

One can only Hope that someone is forwarding these cartoons to the Dumpster so that he can actually see in what high regard he is actually held by the vast majority of voters in this country. Even a LOT of the ones who actually voted this bumbling fool into office.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-our-cartoon-president-trailer-take-trump-to-extreme-w515091?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

I just noticed – is Trump the first president that Trudeau has actually depicted as himself, rather than through an icon or simply a word balloon from the White House? (The Max Headroom parody doesn’t count as depicting Reagan.)

Cleverly expressed. I liked this.