Phil Hands for May 06, 2022

Yep. What a HORRIBLE idea to help the folks on the bottom of the pile make it through a hard time when you KNOW FULL WELL that it’s the obscenely rich who deserve the assistance.

Yeah: sarcasm

Yeah how dare the government try to help college students with their student debt. /s

And there is the fact that we are still recovering finacially from the pandemic. There is bird flu, wildfires, floods. Tax cut s for the wealthy. And I guess this President caused the world-wide inflation?

Uh, Phil, didn’t the stimulus start with the trumpster? aka covid stimulus and tax break for his owners stimulus

Could one complex factor be helium?

Yes, far too complex for the average to understand. Just blame Biden and don’t try to make sense of it all.

Can’t tell if he serious about blaming biden on the inflation or its a joke and this just sarcasm

Phil, I don’t s’pose you’ve noticed that corporate PROFITS are the highest in 50 years.

And their share of tax revenues collected is lowest in about the same time.

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Oh, and BTW Phil, Putin invaded Ukraine. You may have heard about that. I’ve heard that there’s a chance that invasion had some effect on inflation.

The economy doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but other things in the world affect it.

Yes, that’s me, alright, just floating in free money./s

The last four Republican presidents: Regan, Bush, Bush, Trump. How many lowered the debt? Hint: it’s less than one.

Besides trying to gain political points, why is it so difficult to see that things (inflation in this case) have multiple causes?

Nothing wrong with “stimulus”. Does anyone think the U.S. Economy would have been “better” if Biden had not done what he did? Not given out “free” vaccines against Covid? Not given out “Tax Refunds” to a lot of folks? That’s what those IRS checks were, whether you think so or not. And, by the way, Phil Hands’ selective memory forgets that D. Trump gave out IRS refunds, too. Remember that?? Without all that, the U.S. Economy would be a lot worse.

The war in Ukraine is a drop in the bucket for the US, so far.

Also, Zelensky is insulted by the paltry $33b in weapons when biden gave the taliban $86b. :P

In case no one has noticed… the Economy has been badly overheated for YEARS, long before Ukraine, or the Pandemic, or any of the various other recent events, and has been ready for a major adjustment, which has begun. No one person, or policy can be blamed, just as no one person can be blamed for the tides rising and falling in the oceans. “Boom and Bust” has been happening for CENTURIES around the world, and it will continue to do so for many more centuries to come!

Why waste all that money destined for tax breaks for rich people?

This comic is just fodder for the simple minded who cannot grasp the complexities that have lead to world wide inflation.

Phil…neither humorous, poignant or accurate. A sad try at relevance.

Or it could be all the free money handed out to corporations since the housing bubble crashed way back in ’07.

Stimulus 1 was helpful. Stimulus 2 was unnecessary and mostly just ineffective pandering as Cool Joe’s numbers are showing him.

If he wants to lose more points just forgive student debt without qualifications or restrictions. Really get those of us who paid it off very ticked off at the ballot box. If he “forgives” then maybe he can throw in my auto loan which has 36 more months. Apparently a few million students think that they are as important as a corporation.

Answer for crushing debt is create a formula to have them work it off while getting paid to do the job by taking those jobs that are not favored currently. Military service, Vista, Peace Corps, Firefighting, 21st century version of WCC, teacher’s aide, healthcare aides, etc.

World wide problem. Some created by supply chain issues from Covid, most created by greedy price gouging corportations. Particularly, oil companies.

In the meantime, this cartoon ignores the fact that the deficit is actually going down under Biden’s policies and not up. It will take a long time to undo Trump’s increases to the deficit in his four terrible years in office.

Notice the RED shirt…

$1.6 trillion is tax cuts for the super rich. THAT was fine.

what about the trillions in corporate subsidies?

But, mostly, it is the fault of Greedy CEOs who see Inflation as a way to tilt the next two Elections to the Reich Wing and give themselves Huge Bonuses at the same time by Jacking Up Prices and blaming it on Ukraine.

This cartoon is a stereotype about the GOP.