You can see one of my favorite political cartoons, produced by Chuck Asay, by clicking this link. It shows how a burdensome welfare state undermines growth by creating too heavy a load for the economy to carry.
Here’s a Lisa Benson cartoon that makes a similar point, but it focuses on Obama’s class-warfare tax policy.
What makes the cartoon especially effective is that it not only shows that higher tax burden is designed to finance more spending, but also it makes clear that soaking-the-rich won’t be enough.
I’ve already cited a bunch of semi-honest leftists who admit that their real goal is taxing the middle class (probably with a value-added tax!), so we can’t say we haven’t been warned.
P.S. My two other favorite Lisa Benson cartoons can be enjoyed here and here.
P.P.S. For Chuck Asay fans, my two other top choices for his work can be seen here and here.
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Yes but why keep calling them the rich, and not the productive. Those whose productivity is four-five orders of magnitude greater than the average person’s. Eg. The bulldozer inventor vs the manual digger or even the bulldozer operator?
While it is true that as the electorate chooses to allocate an ever larger proportion of wealth through the voting process ( an electoral desire embodied by Obama) the correlation between exceptional productivity and personal wealth will wane. But that has not quite happened in America yet. Wealth in America still correlates strongly with exceptional productivity of individuals, or their immediate ancestors.
HopNChangers are oblivious to how lucky they are to live in a country where that correlation still exists. HopNChangers will find that their desire to reallocate wealth through the democratic process (ie Pitchfork Economics) will destroy that correlation. A much darker and unexceptional future awaits Americans. The path to France is paved with good intentions and pitchforks. And that path leads to Greece, as the French are slowly discovering. And even Greece is far from its terminal equilibrium of decline. The once privileged western world voter lemming is on his way to converging to the world average. In a way, that counts as international fairness.