With his singular style, Tom Toles tackles the complex issues of the day. This Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skillfully targets political, economic and social concerns — in particular complicated environmental issues — with a clear-eyed precision that hits the mark every time.
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Hawthorne said, about 5 hours ago
Oooooooo … Toles nails it again!
Doughfoot said, about 3 hours ago
Had no idea what “anchor putting” was until I looked it up just now. Funny how Toles still uses a caricature of the wealthy that is more suitable to 1913 than to 2013. Still there is a point here. Money is power, soft power rather than hard power, but power nevertheless. The concentration of that power in fewer and fewer hands is antithetical to American ideals and principles. Both equality and, in the end, liberty are undermined. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, October 18, 1785: “But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property … [ One ] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”
masterskrain said, about 3 hours ago
America has ALWAYS had the “Golden Rule”!
“Whoever Has The Gold Makes The Rules”!
An Honest politician is one who once he is bought and paid for, STAYS bought, and does what his corporate masters tell him to do.
Tigger
said, about 1 hour ago
Blame the 2010 Democrat Controlled House and Senate + President Obama.
In late December 29010, instead of the Democrats simply allowing the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich to expire by refusing to vote to extend them, then the Rich would be Paying the IRS Rate they paid when Bill Clinton was President.
The Democrats were stupid and Voted ‘Yes’ to extend The Bush Tax Cuts, and Obama was Stupid for failing to Veto the Bill passed by The Democrats.
Start blaming Democrats for the Tax Cuts for the 1%, as they extended the Cuts, ergo, they took ownership of the Tax Cuts for the 1%.
Genome Project said, 27 minutes ago
@Tigger
You’re being disingenuous. We were in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression at that time, and Tim Geitner warned at that time that raising taxes would make matters worse.
Now that the economy is in recovery, and with Congress obsessed over the debt, tax increases, especially for those with the least to lose, is the lesser of two evils over cutting spending.
Clark Kent said, 12 minutes ago
@masterskrain
Also: “do unto others for fun and profit”.
Harleyquinn
said, 4 minutes ago
Yaaaaaawn..
Fun fact, if you are in the USA, work, make over 34,000, you will be in the 1% of the world. How about that.