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What budget math? All the rate cuts will be financed by not cutting loopholes and we’ll make it up on the volume. - No time, no time! People would change the channel!
I believe this is a clear and factual representation of mittens stated plans for PBS and NPR. Maybe it was fortuitous he let this one slip out… oh wait, he’s been saying that all along. Some of us Americans have just not let it sink in until now. - This one turns out to be consistent over time and not one of his infamous flip flops.
Some of us Americans have just not let it sink in until now. . So that’s how you can still support o with his blatant destruction of this country? You also failed to hear that PBS doesn’t need govt support either.
$5,000,000,000,000 in tax cuts that favor the mega wealthy. . Folks, we’re not talking about your doctor here. We’re not talking about the family that owns the successful restaurant, or the one that owns the resort. We’re not talking about the developer that drives around in a Lambo. We’re not even talking about the guy with a string of Mc Donalds’ worth $25Million! . We’re talking about the Koch Brothers, The Bush family, The Waltons, we’re talking about the Coors family and the Mellon Strait and Mr. and Mrs Heinze Kerry. We’re talking about Kleiner Perkins and Larry Elison . We’re talking about (except we’re not because they are giving theirs away) Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and George Soros (who have each come out against the repeal of the estate tax) . And you’re concerned with “Income” ? And you think we’re going to make up the shortfall in revenue from estate taxes by eliminating your Home mortagage interest deduction? . GETREAL!
Think about your $5 trillion tax cut number a moment, Dred. If the cut on their investment tax rate was from 15% to 0% the group you mention would have to make $33 trillion dollars on their investments. Now, Imagine the amount that group would have to invest to make that much money. The entire dollar value of the entire United States is $110 trillion. (per answers.com, maybe not the best source)
MIt and Ryan want PBS, NPR, and Big Bird dead because they actually report news accurately, and teach kids to add, subtract and do basic math: which shoots down all their budget and economic data supporting their other “plans”.
Yup, double down on “defense” at three new submarines a year (for what?), and cut taxes in half or more, and the budget will balance itself. This isn’t “Sesame Street”, it’s the story of 3,000 little pigs in banking and on Wall Street.
By the looks of this cartoon Matt, the most dangerous Muppet is still at large…What if Ms Piggie made through the mountains and is now living in London (where the Muppet show was originally produced) ? And those shell companies in the Department of Defense call ‘Armed Forces Radio and TV’ that are broadcasting PBS programs to American soldiers and their dependents overseas secretly supporting the123 Sesame Street subversives and bleeding the DoD of precious funding…Some body call jack Welch and Faux News…get the word out out on BS Mountain….OURNATION IS IN DIREPERIL !
Don’t forget that it is over 10 years. . The tax cut would be 500billion per year. . Then don’t forget that the cut in the cap gains rate is only one of the tax giveaways to the mega wealthy. The estate tax elimination is a much greater piece of the pie. The top 1% of the nation own 35% of the nation’s total wealth which you cite as $110T. $38TRILLION owned by the nation’s top 1%. . Estate taxes on this (assuming they all died right now at simplistic rules) would be $19T. Mitt wants to make that number $0. . I think we can agree that there is a number between $0 and $19,000,000,000,000 that is fair. . Let’s not forget that the Estate Tax was established in order to keep guys like Henry Ford and John D Rockefeller and Cornelius Van Der Bilt and JP Morgan and whatshisname Gould from amassing wealth so great that they could effectively take over the nation and pass laws that served their own particular interests. Why? Because the regulators believed in “Free Market Capitalism” which can only exist because it can’t exist. It can only “exist” if it is regulated. . Do you think old man Rockefeller was willing to let anyone else in on his oil business? And given enough wealth, he would have been able to control who got pipe (for example) and kept the “barrier to entry” so high that he owned the entire industry. . These reforms are the ones that the Koch brothers, and the Bass brothers and the other brothers in the top 1% are trying to overthrow! . Is that what you want for America? Do you want your grandchildren to be nothing more than slaves to the corporate overlords. Do you want their children to have no chance for advancement? “We have need for 500,000 managers and the rest of you are just employees. Our families provide us with an ample breeding pool from which we can fill those positions, therefore there is no reason for you to be educated! Therefore, you should work!” . The point is that Mitt is giving tax cuts to the wealthy and paying for it with our money. He should tell us now what he intends to cut to make his $5T taxcut “Revenue Neutral”. . Remember “revenue neutral” is a term that they use in M&A work as they tell employees that there are cuts coming “But they’re going to be revenue neutral”. In all the mergers I’ve been through, that always meant you were going to take a cut in pay! ALWAYS!
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Comments (38) (Please sign in to comment)
Mhic Dhu Ghaill
said, 8 months ago
It would be fun.
#FIRST#
masterskrain said, 8 months ago
OOH! This one is REALLY gonna bring out the wing-nuts!
Radish
said, 8 months ago
The cost of the attack offset any savings.
Pequod77 said, 8 months ago
Set the Count free & let Big Bird fly home to what’s left of Sesame Street.
Michael wme said, 8 months ago
They’re marching Big Bird off to see the Colonel.
Megan said, 8 months ago
Man, I got sad seeing the Count and Oscar is such dire circumstances. This is a depressing ’toon.
braindead08 said, 8 months ago
What budget math? All the rate cuts will be financed by not cutting loopholes and we’ll make it up on the volume.
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No time, no time! People would change the channel!
Chikuku said, 8 months ago
Romey is a big bully. Has always been.
cjr53 said, 8 months ago
I believe this is a clear and factual representation of mittens stated plans for PBS and NPR. Maybe it was fortuitous he let this one slip out… oh wait, he’s been saying that all along. Some of us Americans have just not let it sink in until now.
-This one turns out to be consistent over time and not one of his infamous flip flops.
sw10mm said, 8 months ago
@cjr53
Some of us Americans have just not let it sink in until now.
.
So that’s how you can still support o with his blatant destruction of this country? You also failed to hear that PBS doesn’t need govt support either.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago
$5,000,000,000,000 in tax cuts that favor the mega wealthy.
.
Folks, we’re not talking about your doctor here. We’re not talking about the family that owns the successful restaurant, or the one that owns the resort. We’re not talking about the developer that drives around in a Lambo. We’re not even talking about the guy with a string of Mc Donalds’ worth $25Million!
.
We’re talking about the Koch Brothers, The Bush family, The Waltons, we’re talking about the Coors family and the Mellon Strait and Mr. and Mrs Heinze Kerry. We’re talking about Kleiner Perkins and Larry Elison
.
We’re talking about (except we’re not because they are giving theirs away) Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and George Soros (who have each come out against the repeal of the estate tax)
.
And you’re concerned with “Income” ? And you think we’re going to make up the shortfall in revenue from estate taxes by eliminating your Home mortagage interest deduction?
.
GET REAL!
mikefive said, 8 months ago
Think about your $5 trillion tax cut number a moment, Dred. If the cut on their investment tax rate was from 15% to 0% the group you mention would have to make $33 trillion dollars on their investments. Now, Imagine the amount that group would have to invest to make that much money. The entire dollar value of the entire United States is $110 trillion. (per answers.com, maybe not the best source)
dtroutma
said, 8 months ago
MIt and Ryan want PBS, NPR, and Big Bird dead because they actually report news accurately, and teach kids to add, subtract and do basic math: which shoots down all their budget and economic data supporting their other “plans”.
Yup, double down on “defense” at three new submarines a year (for what?), and cut taxes in half or more, and the budget will balance itself. This isn’t “Sesame Street”, it’s the story of 3,000 little pigs in banking and on Wall Street.
Jeddidyah said, 8 months ago
By the looks of this cartoon Matt, the most dangerous Muppet is still at large…What if Ms Piggie made through the mountains and is now living in London (where the Muppet show was originally produced) ? And those shell companies in the Department of Defense call ‘Armed Forces Radio and TV’ that are broadcasting PBS programs to American soldiers and their dependents overseas secretly supporting the123 Sesame Street subversives and bleeding the DoD of precious funding…Some body call jack Welch and Faux News…get the word out out on BS Mountain….OUR NATION IS IN DIRE PERIL !
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago
@mikefive
Don’t forget that it is over 10 years.
.
The tax cut would be 500billion per year.
.
Then don’t forget that the cut in the cap gains rate is only one of the tax giveaways to the mega wealthy. The estate tax elimination is a much greater piece of the pie. The top 1% of the nation own 35% of the nation’s total wealth which you cite as $110T. $38TRILLION owned by the nation’s top 1%.
.
Estate taxes on this (assuming they all died right now at simplistic rules) would be $19T. Mitt wants to make that number $0.
.
I think we can agree that there is a number between $0 and $19,000,000,000,000 that is fair.
.
Let’s not forget that the Estate Tax was established in order to keep guys like Henry Ford and John D Rockefeller and Cornelius Van Der Bilt and JP Morgan and whatshisname Gould from amassing wealth so great that they could effectively take over the nation and pass laws that served their own particular interests. Why? Because the regulators believed in “Free Market Capitalism” which can only exist because it can’t exist. It can only “exist” if it is regulated.
.
Do you think old man Rockefeller was willing to let anyone else in on his oil business? And given enough wealth, he would have been able to control who got pipe (for example) and kept the “barrier to entry” so high that he owned the entire industry.
.
These reforms are the ones that the Koch brothers, and the Bass brothers and the other brothers in the top 1% are trying to overthrow!
.
Is that what you want for America? Do you want your grandchildren to be nothing more than slaves to the corporate overlords. Do you want their children to have no chance for advancement? “We have need for 500,000 managers and the rest of you are just employees. Our families provide us with an ample breeding pool from which we can fill those positions, therefore there is no reason for you to be educated! Therefore, you should work!”
.
The point is that Mitt is giving tax cuts to the wealthy and paying for it with our money. He should tell us now what he intends to cut to make his $5T taxcut “Revenue Neutral”.
.
Remember “revenue neutral” is a term that they use in M&A work as they tell employees that there are cuts coming “But they’re going to be revenue neutral”. In all the mergers I’ve been through, that always meant you were going to take a cut in pay! ALWAYS!