Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 18, 2021

Yeah, now that Democrats are in office, the national debt matters again, which is pretty much the only time it matters.

Should have thought of that before they voted for tax cuts for the wealthy.

Giving relief to landlords and restaurants and schools and kids will pay dividends both now and down the road. Recessions tend to be bad for the economy.

That is a question. How are going to pay off the debt? We could go bankrupt and start all over again but it is so high that people can’t really comprehend it. Well,there is nothing I can do about it. Did my taxes today and I have to pay $78.00. I want to thank the people here for the support I have received.I think I will try an Army toast to close. Absent Friends.’

Typical Republican.

Deficits only count when Democrats are trying to solve problems.

Where were the deficit chicken hawks when Rand Paul and Donald Trump wanted to give trillions away in tax breaks for the rich?

Hey, asshole, where were you with this BS when Trump blew a $9 trillion hole in the deficit and debt?! When Dubya blew a $15 Trillion hole in both?

Stantis is back to ‘normal’ for Republicans*:

Getting a relief check of $2000 is horrible because it adds to the deficit. The fact that it adds to economic activity doesn’t help the stock market at all — at least not until a month or so later.

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The already wealthy getting billions in tax preferences is totally different? It does not increase the deficit? We don’t have to pay it back? It will Trickle Down? Of course it does increase stock buybacks, increasing wealth of those who already have a stock portfolio. And cutting taxes assures they will not take part in ‘paying it back’.

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Seems fair.

Don’t feel bad, Winslow. Under the Stimulus Bill for the 1% your taxes will start to go up. The present day is smoke and mirrors.

Cynically stated, I am among the lead group that will be checking out before the fit hits the shan. I may however be around long enough to see some significant inflation that has been building up for a few years, and that we have not had since the late 70’s/early 80’s.

Just when you think Stantis may have a camora and become aware, he falls back into the black pit of republican hypocrisy!

Happens all too often!

This is just nonsense. The US is not a family with income and expenses. It’s immortal (unless Trump’s minions bring it down) and prints its own money. Buyers of its bonds are eager to do so. The relief for struggling families will stimulate growth. Delaying it to target it perfectly would do irreparable harm. It’s hard to get inflation in the current environment but Summers makes some persuasive arguments that we should keep in mind. Growth makes debt shrink over time, immortality means the time is forever.

If you’re genuinely concerned about debt (instead of seizing on it as a convenient excuse to do nothing), you should support Democrats — over the last 40 years the deficit has shrunk under Democratic presidents, and ballooned under Republicans.

Somewhere along the line

Well I know it’s just a matter of time

Well the fun falls through and the rent comes due

Somewhere along the line

William Martin Joel

I’m puzzled. Everyone seems to hating on the Republicans for running up the debt. But you’re the ones now saying it doesn’t matter, so why are you mad at the Republicans because they used to agree with you?

WE don’t have to pay it back, Winslow. Our grandchildren will pay for it. Nice of them to honor our commitments, don’t you think?

When “the bill comes due” the authors of this mess will be safely moldering in the grave.

DUH

The national debt will only continue to grow because we have Republicans unwilling to raise taxes and Democrats refusing to cut spending.

Thanks to those who posted links. Have a wonderful day my friends.

Look at it this way. $1.9 trillion is simply two and half years of the Defence budget. In five years, the Defence budget will have spent twice that.

How did Walt Kelly keep it fresh all those years? He could temporize for four panels while the speech carried the point, but he’d never put in vapid paper doll poses we’ve seen a hundred times who do nothing but wave their arms and run around like idiots.

But Kelly cared, so.

I’m elderly; should I run out and buy that Jaguar I’ve always dreamed of, secure in the knowledge that by the time anyone realizes I can’t pay for it I’ll be deceased? When treating yourself or others, ALWAYS ask, ‘Where will the money come from?’

Is the artist a bit blurry on the economics of how to make money? It comes from the bottom up not the top down. Think of stimulus checks as seeding a field. When you bury seed corn in the ground you lose the seed, but you still do it since you know that in the future you will reap many times the same number of corn kernels from the future harvest. Refuse to seed the ground, or care for it after you have and you gain nothing but your original bag of seed.

Of course, while the former guy was handing out stimulus checks and tax breaks that all added to the national debt, Republicans weren’t worried…

That where high taxes on the hoarding class come in.

Carmen in panel 3 is not articulating a real Republican position. They don’t want to invest in roads or schools. They are only afraid that higher taxes will be required to service the debt.

I see where Trump has changed Mar-a-Lago to a private club where the invited can come to kiss his ring. He is also separating him from the RNC and setting up his own which is collecting donations . He has declared himself the head of the Republican Party. I do not know if this is true or no. But he is like a circus barker and a con man. so one never knows, do one? Absent Friends,

It surely will catch up to us

Somewhere along the line

Well you know it’s just a matter of time

Well the fun falls through and the rent comes due

Somewhere along the line

William Martin Joel

i thought this was a democrat who made this comic strip, its a republican yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whhooo hooooo!! im going to follow this comic strip now!!!!!

The dems should cancel the 2 trillion dollar republican tax breaks for the rich in 2017.

Where were your complaints when the republicans wee running up thhe defict with tax cuts for the rich?