Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 23, 2012

There is absolutely nothing political about this!

And congratulations to Eddie, and thank you for doing your part to balance our budget!

Eddie’s got a lot of rungs to go.

So he wrote her a hundred thousand dollar check? Must have been a good lobster year…….My girlfriend says she wishes she’d have married a lobster fisherman…Her logic? they’re away all the time, but when they do come home they have lobsters….win win…

No worries, I used a calculator.

Time to start a new tab

Flo’s got it down. ;)

This is a sign of the Apocalypse. Maybe the doomsayers didn’t account for the Gregorian conversion. This requires more Leaps in their logic.

my elderly mother has a tenant (who is in her 20-‘s)-who feels that paying her rent-is a gift to her landlady. yet she doesn’t mind demanding repairs fast (she has owed over 1 months rent for 5 months now)..well, i have a surprise for her—when mother crosses—i am selling that house from underneath her—and moving to a warmer state…in the state i live in—new landlords do not need a reason to toss tenants.

I think you mean he’s part of the 47% (and growing) that live off of the government. Check out the riots in Greece and France for further clarification.

I think Flo herself is in the 1% … notice the offshore diner.

Do the 1% consider themselves not American enough to pay taxes? Not a shot to Flo.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Wiley is a woman and a jerk.

Actually, Eddie looks like the classic liberal to me…FREELOADER!

Now he can do that with the Fiscal Cliff….well we can dream, can we?

The diner became “off shore” after the oceans started rising.

Did Eddie include a nice 20% tip on top of the bill?

Sorry to see Wiley is just another lib. They gotta be political even in places you least expect it. FYI for Wiley and everyone else reading his strip, the 1% already pays 40% of all taxes. That seems disproportionate enough to be “fair” by any objective look. We have finally turned the corner in our country where being successful is now a no no.

“the 1% already pays 40% of all taxes”-“I think you mean he’s part of the 47% (and growing) that live off of the government.”-Where do all these “facts” and “figures” come from? All conflicting? Didn’t Warren Buffett say his secretary paid more % in taxes than he did?-All these statistics are just fancy dressed lies. Why doesn’t everybody just pay 15% with no loopholes and no offshore diners…er, accounts? “Creative accounting” got us to the cliff, and fancy dressed lies will keep us going over it.

Considering that the one percent’s share of the income tax burden is greater than their share of the income — and the imbalance is greater than you find in any other developed country — Wiley has a curious definition of “what you owe.”

Just another liberal who can’t think.

I think perhaps that’s backwards?

does the 1% even know what struggle is? they don’t even how to go through a drive through at a fast food joint. or, shop at walmart. or, concerned about sending our kids to school. they don’t know. they don’t know how to change oil in their cars or mow their lawns or rake the leaves or clear snow out of the driveway. and, they say 99% are lazy. no, the 1% is lazy.

I like the way Eddie’s pipe smoke reflects the content of his text balloon. My dad smoked a pipe, but mostly it just kept going out.

Wow! Wiley, you are being obvious, you usually hide in metaphor — be careful. The radical rich may not read your ’toons any more.

The best part of this is reading it in the Maine accent.

That should her gift to him

Ah yes , the 99% who believe they are owed something without earning it.

right, nothing political; just simply a little being normal….or outright crazy……

Recent studies show that most American’s are in the 10%‘ers while most of the world’s population are in the 90%’ers. Congratulations, we’ve all been promoted!

Now, now, it’s not polite to tease people. Not even the GOP. Darn it…

That 1% pays their share and somewhere in the nighborhood of 50% of others, as well.We don’t have a taxing problem in this country. We have a spending problem.

I don’t think anyone who pays 50-60% of THEIR money owes me or any socialist government any more.

Here’s a thought Flo, why don’t you charge zero to half of your customers, and charge half of the rest of your costs to1% of your customers and the other half of your costs to the 49% in between. That way a lot of people would get free coffee, most of the rest would pay like $20, and the 1% would pay something like maybe $1,000. That way, you could give a “gift” of free coffee to half your customers!

The catch is that if you set different amounts that people “owe” for the exact same cup of coffee, how long do you think it will take for the 1% that “owe” the most to decide to take their business to a different diner? Then how long do you think it will take before you lose your diner? And what happens to all those poor souls who got hooked on your free coffee?

Maybe having everyone “owe” the same amount for the same cup of coffee isn’t such a bad idea.

You’ve all got it wrong. We should take everyone’s money and stuff, throw it into a big pile, divide it up evenly and dish it out. Everyone gets the same amount of money and stuff and everyone is happy. Until, of course, half the folks use up everything they’ve been given, the other half has made more stuff and then we can do it all again.

Love it!Still wish I could’ve found the Offshore Diner when I was last in Maine!

Payroll and income taxes are what the “middle class” pay, well above a total of 39% in many cases. Those who do NOT “work” for their money, get it as dividents and “captial gains”, which means the pay from 8%, to AT MOST 15%. So, yes, when “what they owe” is considered by them a “gift”, it is to most of us, and even those who wrote the tax codes for them, preferential, and fraud.

It must be the morphing time for lillte strummer boy to turn into tochus.

@ drednawt – The “government” essentially has nothing. In this country the people are supposed to own the government (if they don’t, then who does?). So what you’re saying then is that nearly half the people are living off the other half. Interesting that one half could dupe the other half into that.

Wiley, thank you for the wonderful cartoons and the odd comments you get. May you have a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Cannot wait to open my Non Sequitur 2013 Desk Calendar. Makes getting up in the morning fun. Thank you.

That reminds me. I need to include in my fiscal cliff talking points that taxes are not payments due for society building a functional place where I create my own wealth but gifts we trickle upon you.

I wonder how many people – not from Maine – know what that thing is on the right side of the Diner.

Ayuh!

Wait… Mitt Romney, right?

Wiley, gotta love Canadians, eh? They know quality when they see it. America could learn a lot from Canada……Too bad we’re too stupid to do it…Oh, well,,,

Why should one person pay 40% of his income in taxes, while another person only pays 15%? Why should either of them pay taxes when 14% of those that file a tax return are receiving money back over and above any that they paid in? Don’t start spouting off about the 1% needing to pay their fair share until these issues are on the table also, or you’ll just look like an idiot.