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   braindead08 said, 10 months ago

   The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
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   Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, 10 months ago

   To @human & braindead:
   I don’t get how your statements go along with this ’toon. Mind elaborating?
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   MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

   I looked up the quote in panel one. It’s not paraphrased, it’s an actual quote by New York Congressman Sereno E. Payne. Amazing! It’s like saying “we don’t need to make any laws, the criminals will not obey them anyway”. Head hurts… Must stop reading GOP-stuff…
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   ghostkeeper said, 10 months ago

   Oddly enough, after one hundred years the Congressman’s words are now true! Give the Republicans credit, they will go to any lengths to be right! If they say black is white, they will say it until it is so!
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   jmattadams said, 10 months ago

   Uh oh. It looks like Ted got a phone call. “Fall in line or we’re pulling your funding.” I may have to do a little research, but I don’t ever think I’ve had to label Ted Rall a butt-kisser.
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   mikefive said, 10 months ago

   A tax cut on poor people? How do you have a tax cut on people that don’t pay taxes?
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   Gary Kleppe said, 10 months ago

   @mikefive

   Still telling the same old lie? Some poor people don’t pay federal income taxes since they have insufficient income to reach the threshhold. The working ones still pay payroll taxes, many of them pay property taxes, and everybody who doesn’t live in a cave pays sales taxes.
   
   More to the point, the GOP defined the health care mandate as a tax. The working poor are subject to the mandate. Therefore by your definition, they pay taxes, and they’d get a large cut under a sensible universal system.
   
   Panel four is absolutely correct, by the way. The Fourteenth Amendment says states may not deny equal protection to persons within their jurisdiction.
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   mikefive said, 10 months ago

   @Gary Kleppe

   The ‘toon seems to refer only to federal tax. That’s all my comment referred to. By the way, you forgot taxes disguised as fees, excise taxes, and a myriad of other taxes that the government sneaks onto goods and services that are built into our everyday living.
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   GreggW said, 10 months ago

   @Grainbelt

   Great quote! Many of those nasty European countries do exactly this (though there is in most countries) no separation of church and state.
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    braindead08 said, 10 months ago

    @Ketira shena Pretarasedrin

    Just something panel five reminded me of.

    I am not a big fan of lotteries.
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    jrmerm said, 10 months ago

    ?? The first three panels demonstrate how right the Republicans have been all along. The last three panels are incomprehensible, which of course seems to be the intent. But the result is the message is not clear.
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    lonecat said, 10 months ago

    @

    When the umpire says it’s a strike, it’s a strike. If you protest too much, you’re out of the game.
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    charliekane said, 10 months ago

    Disingenuous opposition. Positively Jon Stewart-ian.
    Well played, Mr. Rall.
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    charliekane said, 10 months ago

    Also note: “What if Democrats dis the same thing?”
    The blame may be shared, but it ain’t equal.
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    ahab said, 10 months ago

    Interesting country, the government is like a chicken with it’s head cut off. Obama,the “head” is trying to make the Republicans “body with no head running in circles” act connected. Well, FAT CHANCE.
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