Dana Summers is the creator of the comic strip Bound and Gagged. He also finds time to co-create a second strip, The Middletons, with fellow Orlando Sentinel cartoonist Ralph Dunagin. His third job is editorial cartoonist for The Orlando Sentinel. His editorial cartoons have been in syndication since 1985.
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MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
There is no tax hike, just a return to sanity. And there is no provision, just a calender. The GOP is royally screwed, they have to do something – or the thing they fear the most will happen. But everything they can do will include that very same thing, because the President simply has to do nothing in order to make it happen to them. Brilliant! Reminds me of that computer in “War Games” that has to play against itself to “learn” that the only move that promises victory is a move that can’t be played because it ensures defeat…
disgustedtaxpayer said, 6 months ago
After 4 years of creating chasms between rich and poor, men and women, workers and employers, by Obama’s class warfare….the Dictator built that wall of TAX THE RICH OR GO OFF THE CLIFF….“my way or the highway”….deadline looming because Obama will not “openly negotiate”….
Radish
said, 6 months ago
The poor elephant can’t agree to a tax hike because the wall is in the way.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Most Americans, 53 percent, would blame congressional Republicans, according to a Pew Research Center poll. Just 27 percent would blame Mr. Obama, according to the poll, conducted Nov. 28 – Dec. 2.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57557007-10391739/poll-gop-to-blame-if-fiscal-cliff-talks-fail/
1opinion said, 6 months ago
@Radish
A wall of his own construction.
Poor Disgusted, the wealthy instigated that divide and conquer strategy under the “robber barons”. Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first to try and provide equality.
Rockngolfer said, 6 months ago
@Radish
I heard about that Pew Poll on MSNBC.
Some of the pundits brought up the subject of how the rest of the world looks at the situation.
They disagree about whether the stock markets have already factored in going over the slope, cliff or even garden?
Some think other countries may blame Obama more.
Robert Landers said, 6 months ago
@Rockngolfer
Other countries of the world are generally far more liberal that the US is. They certainly would not blame a president that is conceived as being far more liberal than the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 6 months ago
That’s politics.
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The phunts played their game and now they want to be bailed out of the repercussions.
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Obama has found the handle on the hammer and now eveything starts to look like a nail!
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Why oh why would Obama back away from tax increases for the wealthy NOW? Right when Grover is nearly over? Was he kidding when he said we need tax increases for the wealthy, or did he mean it?
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Did 60+% of the people say they wanted tax increases during the last election? Did Obama get 60%+ of the popular vote? No? Doesn’t that say that people who DIDN’T vote for Obama (aka Republicans) opined that there need to be tax increases? But Mr. Summers wants Obamam to take them off the table so that the poor phunts can “reach”!
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It’s all political theater anyway because the phunts are going to go for Obama’s plan anyway. It’s a win win for them. If the economy gets stronger (which is a good bet from here anyway given the length of the downturn*) then the Republicans can claim credit (you know they will anyway, just look at how they take credit for the economy under Clinton) and if it doesn’t then they can say “We tried it his way, now it’s our turn! In the Mid Terms.”
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Relax! It’s all copecetic…
Eryx
said, 6 months ago
The GOP lost this election. Americans overwhelmingly voted for the President’s plan. Elections have consequences.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
@Rockngolfer
Since every country in the world except Pakistan was in favor of Obama being elected, I think they will blame the GOP.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
The cliff is man made and therefore can be unmade. They will find ways to mitigate disaster, if they have any smarts, and the cuts are on a sliding scale and they can always change the rules after we go over the cliff. Its mostly political theater to make themselves look important. IMO they will exempt the military from cuts and take away the mortgage deduction from the middle class to pay for it.
Ottodesu said, 6 months ago
@Radish
Radish: you’re correct, but Pakistanis had a USA Presidential candidates preference of something like 13%:12%, so I reckon they don’t count anyway.
Every other country in the world thought it was a good result, and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
I only commentate here to try to bring world perspective to the opinions. It is typically agreed that the only country that is less aware of world news and opinion is North Korea.
TJDestry
said, 6 months ago
Maybe if they hadn’t grown so fat …
william sharpe said, 6 months ago
Why not start at the top? Tax everyone in Washington making over $250,000 at 100% and see what happens!!
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 6 months ago
@william sharpe
You think you’re funny and clever but what you don’t understand is that even if they did that, the people making +$1MM would find ways of having more $ than you.
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There are ways that your business can show free cash of almost any amount and I can help you create legitimate deuctions so that you have nearly $0 in taxable income.
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And guess where the money goes? Into the business owner’s pocket. (It might take a year for it to get there, but it’s all the same.)
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Understand it. If Mitt Romney could pay a measly 14% on his income and he earned $750,000 in “speaking fees” that means he flushed at the very least a million dollars out of his “Taxable income”
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That’s the key, TAXABLE Income. Not Gross income. It’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.
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Is it a “Loophole” to be able to insure your business against catstrophic loss (like you lose your license to practice, or you break your ankle at short stop?) No! Lloyds of London has been insuring starlettes’ legs for decades. So it’s not a loophole if you happen to self insure, and charge yourself the premium Pre Tax. And what happens when you don’t have a claim? Well next year you have another premium payment and last year’s premium is available to the owners of the company…