Getting Your Own Cartoons Wrong
Or "Bitching About Cartoons, Episode 4,239"
Observe today's cartoon from Michael Ramirez. Note the basket is labeled "economy" as well as "economic stimulus." How can it be both?
Let me help. The idea behind the cartoon is simple: We're trying to lift up the economy with only a small amount of tax cuts (more would work) and it's being weighed down by the big spending of the stimulus. It'll never get off the ground that way!
There. So the basket is the "economy." The balloon is "tax cuts." And the boxes inside the basket are the "economic stimulus."
Observe today's cartoon from Michael Ramirez. Note the basket is labeled "economy" as well as "economic stimulus." How can it be both?
Let me help. The idea behind the cartoon is simple: We're trying to lift up the economy with only a small amount of tax cuts (more would work) and it's being weighed down by the big spending of the stimulus. It'll never get off the ground that way!
There. So the basket is the "economy." The balloon is "tax cuts." And the boxes inside the basket are the "economic stimulus."
posted by Matt Bors at
12:27 PM
4 Comments:
Notice how the two people in the basket are white businessmen. And one of them is looking up at the small tax cut, as if wishing that balloon were bigger. Perhaps that's the (unintentional) best part of the cartoon: its representation of who would be lifted up by more tax cuts.
is there any historical evidence of any kind that tax cuts do a god damn thing for anyone that isn't already wealthy?
in conclusion, what a stupid cartoon...
I think that the "Economic Stimulus" label is a bumper sticker on the balloon basket.
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but according to this graph, a huge chunk of the plan is tax cuts.
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