This Henry Payne cartoon is satire, but it’s eerie how the “Valentine’s Fairness Act” seems quite similar to the litany of spending, regulation, and intervention we endured as part of the State of the Union address.
With a rising burden of government spending and more class-warfare tax policy, the only folks getting a real Valentine are the special interest groups. And we’re paying for it, whether we like it or not.
You can enjoy some of Payne’s best cartoons here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. My favorite is the one with Robin Hood.
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Zorba, that was positively terse coming from you.
The positive liberty of having a valentine and the obligation to supply it…