Lisa Benson for April 26, 2018

Like to see Lisa get by on the current federal minimum wage.

This depicts a blue collar taxpayer (which is the only kind of taxpayer found in GOP land). That is not who the Dems are planning to raise taxes on.

Repubs do the same thing, just they expect the social work segment to earn half as much while the taxpayers are the middle class exempting the wealthy.

There’s an unspoken rule in political cartoons: the more labels to guide the reader, the lamer the point.

well I was going to comment, but I’d just repeat the points made already.

Amazing, Lisa prefers the scenario where the 99% are carrying theburden for the one per cent. Republican Troll, they name is Lisa.

Any one remember the C C C of the 1930’s?

It’s too bad Lisa’s taxpayer figure can’t get some help, but the oligarchs are too busy counting “their” money after picking the taxpayer’s pocket with the help of the elephants.

If half the country has no disposable income, how does this help an economy that depends on people spending!

The tax payer is subsidising minimum wage workers via food stamps and medicaid so the rich can get richer. That sounds so much better.

The same taxpayers who fund drawbridges that have full time operators that stop all road traffic so that a single personal boat can meander down a waterway instead of being kept in a marina closer to the open water.

Not to worry, some of those government jobs might require the workers to actually do something.

Raise the minimum wage for ALL jobs to eliminate the need for the working poor to apply for food stamps, etc. Why are taxpayers subsidizing McDonalds and Walmart?

Infrastructure improvements are WAY overdue. These will require SKILLED laborers – should they get paid $7,25 Lisa?

Putting money into the middle class and poor will improve the economy because they will SPEND it. Demand is the only REAL job creator. CEOs did exactly what they said they would with corporate tax cuts – stock buybacks, automation, mergers and debt reduction.

LOWER DoD and Pentagon budgets. Tanks are built and sent directly to storage. Jets that are beyond current technology are ordered and never perfected before the next new “toy” is ordered. Missiles costing $800K EACH are ridiculous.

At least the taxpayers are building a healthier economy and country, instead of the current system of siphoning money to the 1%.

The belief that anyone is supposed to live on a minimum wage job is ridiculous. From either side of the political coin.

What is the actual percentage of adults that live on minimum wage? It is pathetically low.

And if $15 is such a great thing, let us look at the states and cities that have increased those wages and the staggering job losses that have occurred in those areas.

Also recall that once the minimum wage increases, every job above it will likely increase as well. It’s the cost of doing business and that increased cost is going to be passed on to a consumer in some way, manner, shape, or form. The only other option is that jobs are cut to ensure that the business makes enough money to survive, grow, and prosper.

As I like to say, if you are anywhere over the age of 22 and still making minimum wage at work, then you have made some seriously bad choices that have affected your life and your personal potential.

From 2016 in information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only 701,000 people (that is less than 0.9% of the workers age 16 and above made minimum wage. HALF of those were under the age of 25.

While this is disgusting by way of wages, lets be honest about what number of people we are actually talking about here. Regardless of your own personal political or social ideology.

Who is asking the government to provide everyone with $15/hr jobs? Don’t government workers (ok not trump and his cronies) pay taxes? How does this toon make any kind of statement other than it comes from ignorance or is a total manipulator.

Democrats are building their Socialist platform on the backs of taxpayers – and driving a spike through the taxpayer by offering $15/ hour jobs.

While Republicans build their Authoritarian platform on the backs of the poor – and drive a spike through the people who have less than a million dollars by giving all the welfare and benefits to corporations.

Those poor will be helped by the wealthy when they decide to trickle something down.

Those taxpayers will be helped by the economy getting better for everyone when $15/hour government jobs help people join the work force. When did that become so distasteful to the republicans?

Bull$###. This cartoon is bull$###.

I was going to leave a well reasoned argument as to why I think this cartoon is wrong but I think SJSCZUREK captured the sentiment much more eloquently than I could.

Once again a conservative shows ZERO understanding of what socialism is or how it works.

If it goes to a minimum wage, that’s (more than a) trickle up. Giving to the wealthy encapsulates it to their heirs and holdings. And the Cayman Island pool boy.But really, the GOP budget has shown how they only pay lip service to financial responsibility, bringing it up trillions. Military spending (on the world’s largest military) is paraded as returns to a district. But I remember back in the 80’s, it’s been pointed out, grossly inflated everyday purchases, incredible markups

Every Republican knows that you cut social programs to help for for welfare for the rich.

Trickle down has never worked anywhere that it has been tried and it is completely illogical to believe that it ever could. If you had a guy to mow your lawn and he was doing an adequate job, would you give him a raise or hire someone else to help him if you got a raise a work? Neither will the 1%ers. The only thing that will cause him to hire more workers is that the ones currently employed are unable to produce as much product as he could sell. The only thing that is going to increase the demand for product is more people being able to buy more stuff. And, the only reason that more people would be able to buy more stuff is that the middle class is making more money. Consequently, the only way to improve the economy is trickle up, not trickle down, and it will work for everyone, including the 1%ers.

Keep touting the party line there Lisa. Just remember that you can keep the peasants down only so long before they erupt. Do you remember hearing about the French Revolution? If our country winds up having a revolution of the poor against the rich I wonder if we’ll bring back the Guillotine.

In Scandinavia, what our conservatives call socialism, they call responsible governance. The GOP uses socialism as a dirty word because they don’t want us to realize that socialism is much healthier for the population than their oligarchy. But of course, they can’’t be honest about anything.

LI’L OL’ ME, when the minimum wage rises, there is a ripple effect that raises pay for those not far above minimum wage. Companies do a “market survey” then compare workers’ pay to the lowest comparable job they can find and then pay a bit more. The stats about minimum wage don’t include the workers just above minimum, so that doesn’t tell the whole story.

Companies often use things like minimum wage hikes to cover their own want to raise prices and cut jobs. Puzder of Hardees is a perfect example. Minimum wage hikes are gradual but Puzder said he would raise the prices as if the minimum wage jumped to $15 all at once. He’d use this excuse year-after-year.

And if the minimum wage hike will cause job losses and price hikes, where are all the job creations and price cuts because of the ridiculous tax cuts? CEOs used the money ;ike they said they would – buy back stock, pay down debt, initiate mergers and automate. Most of the “famous” bonuses were already planned because of union negotiations or they were limited to people with 20+ years.

I truly do not get why Lisa and other Trump Disciples believe that any benefit for anyone but the rich is ‘Socialism’.

Two legs good four legs better.

Conservatives don’t want higher minimum wage, they want to create lots of jobs in a coal industry where everything is automated anyway. And while they’re at it, they want to bring slide-rules back in every school and typewriters in every office!

Such male bovine excrement, Lisa would you work for $15.00 an hour? Do you know how much that is in gross earnings for a year at five days, eight hours, fifty two weeks? $31,200, How about it Lisa. Do you think the Walton family cannot afford to pay $31,200 a year to it employees, with no benefits? on top of that $31,200, the worker has to pay the Walton’s share of taxes taking the net down to somewhere in the neighborhood of $25.000. Hell, Lisa you probably spent more than that for you car.

One thing about tax and spend parties. They realise that increased spending on a current or new program requires that the benefits of the spending exceeds the necessary taxes that go to fund it. So, new spending = new taxes, means ensuring that the benefits outweigh the costs. Now, with right wing governments, the government feels that any spending is okay. The money will come from some magic money tree, or, it’ll turn up somehow.

Simple fact, it’s “the Turtle” and elephants driving that last spike into the backs of the middle class taxpayer, period.