Ted Rall for May 25, 2012
Transcript:
Eduardo saverin renounced his American citizenship because he owed $67 million in taxes on his Facebook IPO windfall. (ANd you're all fat!) Finally a way to get rid of dark-skinned immigrants- load 'em up with cash! (Man: So long, cahsos amigos!) After we incent immigrants to leave, the only people left here will be poor and white. (Woman: Jus'us folks-ha!) (Man 2: Ayup.) Once again, xenophobia crashes on the jagged rocks of capitalist greed.) (Man 3: Wait- we don't hate immigrants that much.) (Man 4: Cheap hatred good. Expensive hatred bad.
fargopete almost 12 years ago
The last speech bubble is priceless.
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
Like the hat.
walruscarver2000 almost 12 years ago
Fascinating trash. One wearing a hood associated (incorrectly) with south, but using “ha” from a second reagion, while getting a Maine acknowledgement from his buddy. Got to hand it to Rall, one picture, two lines, and put downs of three different groups.
zoidknight almost 12 years ago
So are most leading democrats.
zoidknight almost 12 years ago
Followed by “So I must take it from them and label them racist if they resist.”
zoidknight almost 12 years ago
This strip is another liberal racist piece. The issues have nothing to do with legal immigration and everything to do with illegal immigration, but racist liberals cannot see that they are two different things.
Nebulous Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Since when did you have to be a citizen to be required to pay taxes?If you make the money in the US you pay taxes on it in the US.Which is how some of those BigBusinesses are getting out of paying taxes on a lot of their income. They make the money elsewhere and don’t bring it IN to the US; thus they don’t “need” to pay taxes on that income.(The tax laws are VERY unclear on how that works.)
walruscarver2000 almost 12 years ago
I can see how you could interpret it that way, but I’m incline to think the pixs are from Rall. His recent drawings have seemed to me to take a very negative view of old John Q
WestNYC Premium Member almost 12 years ago
3rd pane: Racist Ted Rall assumes that only white people were born in the USA. And that all blacks, hispanics, and asians are to be considered immigrants.
joe vignone almost 12 years ago
Once the 1% have turned us into a third world country there will be no need to immigrate, you ingrates.
Ph8549 almost 12 years ago
I am of the left but I don’t give a tinker’s dam about this Savarin issue. Who cares, if he wants to leave, so what. This is such a non issue. I don’t think it has anything to do with xenophobia or racism. Rall might be going a little off the deep end here, although I think most of his other cartoons are clever.
Uncle Joe Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Good lord, subtlety is wasted on most of you.There are still plenty of good ol’ boys & girls who don’t think think people of non-Western European descent aren’t “Real Americans”. The Republican party, backed by the 1% , encourages xenophobes to think the reason why taxes are high & they can’t get a good paying job is because of illegal immigration. But, the 1% don’t really want anything done about immigration. Cheap labor is in their best interest.This is why despite all of the talk, you’ll never see Republicans do anything realistic about illegal immigration. It’s easy to talk about border fences, but the actual cost of sealing our borders is more than it’s worth.
Uncle Joe Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Probably because they assume they immigrated from Minnesota.
DavidGBA almost 12 years ago
Where do the cheap nannies and gardeners come from?
Dtroutma almost 12 years ago
A LOT of that “cheap labor” is from India, China, Germany, and other countries, and are folks with degrees, including graduate degrees. The fact that some dude takes the money, runs, and renounces citizenship, isn’t any worse than those who rake in the bucks, with “marginal” legality, then ship those profits to the Caymans, and claim to be “good citizens”.
garysr87 almost 12 years ago
if we deport all the illegals the American economy would totally collapse and we would all starve because white people will not work in the fields and orchards to pick crops
cjr53 almost 12 years ago
Geez, if I suddenly came into a huge pile of money, especially if it were more than I need to live on the rest of my life, I’d go home too. I’m here for the money I EARN, not because it feels like home.
DavidMac almost 12 years ago
Ted Rall is wrong to associate skin color with immigration. But then, Ted is wrong most of the time.
Kylop almost 12 years ago
Well done Ted
kamwick almost 12 years ago
He is right. Americans ARE fat.