Henry Payne for April 17, 2021

In Payne’s upside-down world it’s the Democrats who propagate corporate welfare.

Someone please unplug that projector.

What the heck? In the first place, this seems to be completely antithetical to Paynful Payne’s usual anti-liberal drivel. In the second place, I know of nothing that this ’toon illustrates.

But a 40% tax cut for big corporations and a 50% for high-income proprietors was good for working Americans? What next, Henry — vaccinations spread COVID! Have you taken to snorting hydroxychloroquine?

It is the republicans who have been feeding the poor and middle-class to the rich. Payne is just upset that “trickle-up” economics isn’t working fast enough.

It should be the “Republican Restaurant.” Big Biz can git any subsidy they want / At the Republican Restaurant. (Apology to Arlo Guthrie)

I’ve been saving this GIF for just such an occasion.

https://imgur.com/gallery/5S7h9BL

You can get any BS you want at Payne’s restaurant.

The wealthy and corporations have indeed been getting most of the money (and with it, political power) since Reagan’s time. The ignorance or mendacity of this cartoon comes when he labels it ‘Democrat Cafe’. The wealthy and the corporations wield too much power, but it is the Republicans who are their most reliable tools.

I don’t mind conservative. I respect and admire many conservatives. But I can’t handle stupid. Stupid conservative, stupid liberal, either way, both are bad. This is just plain stupid.

I guess the Dr. Seuss & Mr. Potato Head issues had exhausted him

Big biz is going to stop funding racist republicans.

Subsidies for housing construction, farms, the oil industry, ethanol production, Affordable Care, trade exports, corporate advertising overseas, etc. etc. etc. They just don’t stop.

What? No motor vehicle – isn’t there supposed to be a car?

Paynes got it backwards. The general public isn’t the meal at the Dem Cafe, it’s the diner. Big Biz is the main course d’azur.

Payne is an idiot.

Joe wants to increase corporate taxes and end petrocarbon subsidies. That’s sucking up to business?

If this comic had a modicum of truth about it the Infrastructure bill would have passed the Senate by now.

“It is estimated that about 30% of the money that governments spend on infrastructure is lost through corruption, mismanagement, and through clear stealing. It costs the taxpayer money, which could have otherwise been used as a real investment in the infrastructure or jobs.”

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-affairs/reducing-corruption-construction-could-save-lives-and-livelihoods

What kind of stupidity has Henry come up with this time? This is bey9nd his normal stupid, although he seems to excel at exceeding his own standards.

“What a maroon!” Payne still doesn’t realize that the COVID-19 Denier-in-Chief was all about ‘Kakistocracy!’

Republicans always increase deficit. Dems always reduce it & sometimes leave surplus (Wm. Clinton.) Republicans (along w/ Limbaugh & Hannity & T. Carlson) always lie about it (& everything else).

Roosevelt’s arrival on December 5th, 1938 was the first visit to Chapel Hill by a sitting U.S. President in the 20th century.

Roosevelt told his UNC audience that the press had portrayed him as “an ogre, a consorter with Communists, a destroyer of the rich,” and someone who, “‘breakfasted every morning on a dish of ‘grilled millionaire.’”

FDR drew laughter from the crowd when he said, “Actually I am an exceedingly mild-mannered person, a practitioner of peace, both domestic and foreign, a believer in the capitalistic system, and for my breakfast a devotee of scrambled eggs.”

https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/2018/12/24/fdr-at-unc-in-1938-i-eat-no-grilled-millionaire/

If the sign said “Republican Cafe,” this cartoon would be spot on.

The recent dispute in Georgia tells me it’s time to end corporate welfare for good. In my state, they wanted to raise gas taxes to better fund our schools. I would rather we end our business tax subsidies.