Michael Ramirez for January 25, 2024

The Republican party does a credible job of redistributing wealth upwards.

Redistribution of wealth: Eat the rich.

Redistribuition of wealth in Davos is only in Ramirez head, unless is between the 1%ers.

Really the concentration of power into the richest elite class.

Micheal believe poor should be poor and deserve nothing obviously!

Rich shouldn’t be taxed more

The politics of envy, in full bloom.

What’s the definition of capitalism? I got mine, you go get yours somewhere else.

Earning your wealth at the expense of someone else is wrong. It’s doesn’t have to be zero-sum society. All this cartoon shows is that US “Christian” ethics are influenced more by capitalism then they are by actual Christianity.

It all started with the Reagan Revolution. How’s that trickle down economics workin’ out for you?

Michael, it is not necessarily wealth redistribution, but questioning just HOW that wealth is acquired. (and hoarded, stashed overseas) You know, Jeff Bezos, one of the most obscenely rich men in the world, pays his employees very little, few benefits, and no “nature” breaks for his delivery drivers. Illegal? No. Is if Right? NO!

How’s the oligarchy working for you?

Just not their wealth

It won’t be too much longer and we will have the worlds first trillionaire.

No one is worth that much money. No one has that much value. No one has skills or knowledge that deserve such wealth.

And yet if we talk about the redistribution, heck, if we just talk about TAXING that much wealth we are considered thieves.

Corporate capitalism is theft. Wealth should not be allowed to pool into the control of a few. It needs to be out, being used, doing good in the world.

To the Rich. That don’t care about the poor. And no they are all Republicans, most aren’t Republicans.

When the World Economic Forum is attended exclusively by extremely wealthy people, I don’t think wealth redistribution is on the agenda.

Redistribution of wealth (conservative edition): Give it directly to the rich.

Age old axiom: Keep the poor divided and blaming others for the poor’s poverty while the rich rob their pockets and politicians grab power. The others being immigrants, other religions, the black/brown/red/or yellow skinned, the educated, the sexually deviant, or any other notion of trivial or major difference that can be used to divide. This is why ignorance and hatred are such powerful tools for those who seek to rule. Is this not true? Do you not see this today as you struggle to pay bills?

Flying in on private jets to virtue signal and tell how the “little people’s” earnings should be redistributed! :-)

Three American billionaires have more money than half the American population combined. 3 people have half the cookies on the plate we call America. Yet we blame brown people with no money, no resources, no political power as our problem. That is some twisted logic.

Golly you mean some people are after republican tax breaks for the rich which turned the middle class into the working poor?

The Republicans want money to go to the rich rather than the middle class because they are beholden to them—the money to finance their campaigns comes from the rich. They tell the public that it will “trickle it down”, and everyone will benefit. This is the standard Republican rationale for giving money to those who are already rich. Trickle down has never worked, as far as raising the standard of living, anywhere that it has been tried. And, it is completely illogical to believe that it ever could. If you are paying a guy to cut your lawn and he’s doing an adequate job, then you get a tax cut, do you raise his pay? Neither will the 1%ers.

The only reason to spend more on hired help is that you need more workers to get the job done. The only way more workers will be needed is if there is an increased demand for product- in other words people are buying more stuff. The only reason people would be buying more stuff is that they can afford it. And, the only reason that more people can afford more is that they are the ones getting the tax cuts, not the rich guys. Trickle down just gives the rich guys more money to hide offshore, or more money to buy more politicians to write laws so they have more money to hide offshore. If you want that money to stay in America, increase production, and raise everyone’s standard of living, trickle UP will do the job, not trickle down.

Your wealth, not theirs.

It’s working so great, isn’t it?

Another insipid cartoon from Ramirez.

“Under my Thumb”

Keep John Kerry wealthy. Pour more Heinz ketchup on your tofu/sawdust burger and fries.

It’s amusing that the lefties who post here don’t like the wealthy but seem to want to trust all the wealthy folks who flew into Davos to brainstorm ways to make the world a better place.

For people who are desperately trying to eat and live indoors, redistribution of wealth seems a great idea. Does Michael know that more billionaires will be made by inheritance this year rather than building a company? Does Michael know the elite are building bunkers for protection for when the current situation goes tits-up?

With 9.2% of the world’s population (719 million humans) living in poverty, the words of the Messiah of so many who comment here, should be considered: “Whatever you do to the least of my brother, that you do unto me”; “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s”; and, “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.”

Seems like your Lord and Savior disagrees with the chase for the almighty $$$. (And to the fall back on the “you’re a socialist” fallacy in response suggests that some “Christians” might not truly understand Jesus’ message)

Going on all around us. But in which direction?