Michael Ramirez for March 14, 2021

repubs had no problem voting for their bigass tax cut. Now they’re clutching their pearls because “those people” are going to get a little help.

What’s so much worse, is that there are actual people that are being helped.

The horror.

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Not to worry, Ramirez, the POT will try to take credit for it.

Another cerebral Lilliputian with a steaming pot of kuhscheisse!!

How much debt did the 2017 tax cut package leave each American? Because I’m pretty sure the stock buybacks did nothing for the 45% of Americans that don’t own stock in any way. But they’ll be expected to pay their portion of the debt used to finance those tax cuts.

Only leaves everyone in debt until they make the billionaires pay correct tax levels… then there will be a surplus – and the billionaires will STILL have more than enough. Everybody wins. Except Republicans, who don’t deserve to anyway, considering that they are mainly the reason the problem exists in the first place!

Regular people being helped, oh the humanities. My state got a billion to open schools safely. Something Ramirez, who all of a sudden loves the CHILDREN, doesn’t see as being any help to Americans. Their sudden concern for children is such so fake. Besides, “Deficits don’t matter!” – Dick Cheney.

Mr. Ramirez all of a sudden got fiscal religion? Hilarious.

Ramirez attacks the distribution of $1.9 trillion to the neediest 99% of the U.S. population who have been brought so low by Trump’s lies, e.g., that the Covid-19 virus would miraculously “disappear” one fine day.

Instead, we have suffered the deaths of more than 526,000 fellow citizens due to Trump’s and the GOP Leadershit’s heel-digging for 10 months.

At the same time, Ramirez conveniently overlooks/ignores the $1.9 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthy 1% Trump and the GOP Leadershit engineered in 2017.

We can reliably anticipate the return of the $1.9 trillion distributed to the neediest 99% of the people. That $1.9 trillion will soon find its way back into our nation’s economy to be spent on back-rent, mortgage arrears, food, clothing, utilities, health care, transportation, late-payment/interest fees—routine, day-to-day costs that families MUST spend to live—to survive, to plod on—in our desperate Willy Loman world.

As for the $1.9 trillion Trump & the GOP Leadershit distributed to our nation’s least needy 1%, NONE of that money will ever enter the real-world economy in which We, the People, participate. The 1% participate in a much, much different economy. Their $1.9 trillion will enter the stock market economy, the bond market economy, the speculative real-estate market economy, the objets d’art collectibles economy, the worldwide luxurious resort economy, the privately-owned jet-transportation economy, the gaudy pink-diamond economy, and on and on and on.

Ramirez is stupid, but not because he ignores the hypocrisy of Trump’s and the GOP Leadershit’s coddling of the 1%, but because he dim-wittedly clings to the grotesque and absurd notion that We, the People, i.e., We, the 99%, fall for his, Trump’s, and the GOP Leadershit’s bullshit.

Even loan sharks give more and take less.

YUP.. now, it’s time to worry about the debt. I think we all saw this coming pretty soon after the trump lost.

Then the solution should be that everyone that voted for trump, send your checks back to reduce the deficit and us greedy democrats will keep ours.

It’s an omnibus bill. If you need help with that, Mike, it’s in the grade 5 civics curriculum. (At least, it was in ’68)

Same size package as the tax cut for the rich/corporate world. Ramirez didn’t have a problem with that.

Hear hear, Mikey! Hardly any money goes directly to corporations. That’s an abomination in the eyes of the board!

Perfect score. You get an A.

Repubs didn’t mind raising the deficit when they were padding their own pockets as well as their wealthy donors. But, help ordinary folks with two trillion bucks is not acceptable to them. Their oft repeated phrase, Repubs are the “party of the people” raises the question of just which people are we talking about. Obviously not guys like me.

Remember all those Ramirez cartoons about the record breaking $3.1 Trillion Trump deficit in 2020? Neither do I.

Ramirez was silent when they passed the $3T Tax Cut and Spend Scam that funded corporations and billionaires. He said little when the PPP gave money to rich people and big companies. Now he squawks at a bill targeting real people and lies about the content. FO Ramirez.

Well, Ramierez isn’t wrong, but that doesn’t let him off the hook. As a critique of policy it’s damning for Republicans. Take “rewards State’s mismanagement”. The NY Times did an article about the effect that Covid-19 had on state tax revenue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/covid-state-tax-revenue.html

Turns out that some states did OK. California collected 1.2% more, Texas and Florida were down 10% and 11%. The article cites the $600 a week unemployment aid as a main reason, people who lost their jobs were able to spend and generate tax revenue. High earners were able to continue to work from home. Poor people who lost their jobs don’t contribute as much taxes as higher earners who continue to work (a pretty good argument to raise the minimum wage if you ask me).

And the $85,000/person bill is probably not far off. However, what’s the cost of NOT doing anything? The cost WW2 was enormous. It took a generation to pay it off and we won it. Imagine today’s Republicans arguing that fighting Nazis and other fascists is too expensive? Yes, fighting Covid-19 and it’s effects will be expensive. We will all have to pay for it. Is the alternative of doing as little as possible even close to acceptable?

What Ramierez is pointing out is that the Republicans have no plan other than feed the rich, protect white people and own the libs.

I have heard and read comments on how if “the rich” were striped of all their money, that would not be enough to pay off the debt.

What these people, who are just passing on something they heard, are not realizing is “the rich” would still have their income. Bezo’s recouped more than he lost in his divorce settlement in a few months.

Ramirez is so good at creating strawman arguments by placing false words in others’ mouths… yet still cannot win those arguments…

The usual right wing lies, that’s all they do is lie when they aren’t cheating stealing or being racist.

Ramerez only retransmits Con talking points w pictures.

Boy, this one really, really pushed a button, didn’t it?

Don’t forget to mention that the children of poor families will go to bed and go to school with full bellies…

I may not agree with Ramirez like 99% of the time, but the man has talent as a cartoonist; however, when it comes to the way he caricatures some people, I don’t always get the resemblance at all! What do you think? ¯\("-)/¯

Is there anything you’re not willing to lie about?

Without even going into the 2017 tax cuts and their 1.9 trillion deficit. Consider we have now given 5.5 Trillion in Covid relief but the right are only concerned with the 1.9 that comes when the Democrats are in office and when the relief goes mostly to the people, small businesses and schools etc who really need the help. They didn’t care a whit about the ones before when most of the “relief” went to big corporations who needed it the least. They didn’t bat an eye when trump removed the person in charge of oversight and took over that position himself, and some of that money is missing but the right (like sillybilly) say that because some of the earlier money is still unaccounted for that was a reason not to pass this bill. Personally I say that is a reason to check trump’s pockets myself.

After 40 some years of trickle down economics proving it doesn’t work, it is time to do something that has been proven in the past to work. Now to up the minimum wage and perhaps explore raising taxes on income paid in stocks.

Michael, 60% of Republicans support Biden’s $US1.9 trillion stimulus plan, a new Morning Consult poll found.Only 17% of total voters opposed the president’s stimulus package.The opinions of Republican voters conflict with those of Republican lawmakers, who say the plan is too costly. https://morningconsult.com/2021/02/24/covid-stimulus-support-poll/

61% of Americans support the Covid Relief Bill while only 34% supported Trumps’ Tax Cut scam. That’s a lot of voters Republicans need to suppress.

An ugly combination … Ramirez combines stupidity and hypocrisy!

@GiantShetlandPony : As I posted elsewhere in ths page:

In 1896, in his “Cross of Gold” speech, Williams Jennings Bryan pointed out that even then the GOP had been trying to sell “trickle down.”

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

So it is more than 125 years, not 40 years that the GOP has been running their scam.

For the GOP politicians, it is important that the trickle down gets to them and their friends. And it does, which is why they are so fond of it. Anybody else is just "not the right people.”

Whataboutism: Under Trump, about THREE TIMES as much money was spent, mostly enriching the obscenely rich, and that money was pretty much just taken out of circulation. This one will (mostly) get spent in the next few weeks or months. Not just good for all those things that Ramirez is hating, but ALSO good for the economy. Note the list of “what’s bad”:

“unrelated progressive policies” (in other words; it actually helps people)

“income redistribution” (not like the GOP’s version, because it actually helps people)

“rewards state mismanagement”. Because states SHOULD have been saving money to cover an unlikely disaster while also lowering taxes. Riiiiight.

“disincentives to return to work”. That one is actually true. I’m absolutely stonkered.

“prohibits state tax cuts” Oh, the humanity! (of course it’s a flat lie)

$85K of debt for every American. Not true if you’re counting this bill alone. (about $5750) Of course. He is approximately right if you count the entire national debt

Mr. Ramirez, thank you again for artistically illustrating your political opinion. Very well animated as usual. Unfortunately many here are mistaking your opinion as fact. This continues to escalate increased hateful comments toward republicans and yourself, that furthers the division of our nation.

The 1.3 trillion wasted on the POS F-35 stealth fighter could have been used in a lot better ways, kind of like Trumps tax cuts for the 1%. Of course he is part of the 1%. Tax the rich, they can afford.

Less than 20% of the covid bill goes to help needy Americans, the bulk goes to Democrat states to solve the budget issues, to unions, NPR, Kennedy Center andother pockets.