Category Archives: Economics and the like

Cartoon: Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Ampersand

This cartoon is drawn by the always-great R. E. Ryan. I worked for many years at a historic church site in Portland, Oregon. The most fun part of the job was directing wedding rehearsals. (As a wedding coordinator, I helped … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Free Trade Is For Peasants, Not Cartoonists!

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Ampersand

There’s something bizarrely fun about drawing myself as a cliche of a wealthy man. Although at the same time I was drawing this cartoon, I was also working on a still-to-come cartoon which also involves lots and lots of panels … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: The GOP Tax Policy Cycle!

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Ampersand

Bobby Kogen, at the Center for American Progress, writes: Long-term projections show that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely… House Republican leaders have used this fact to call for spending … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Self-Made Billionaire

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Ampersand

This feels like a very old-fashioned lefty cartoon to me; it’s super-didactic, reliant on labels, has no real punchline, and it’s less about telling a joke then it is about trying to illustrate a basic principal of lefty economics. Other … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: 5 Things Congress Says When It Plans To Cut Social Security | Patreon

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Ampersand

Drawing five random characters (or semi-random, in this case, since they all had to be plausibly the sort of person who could be in Congress and seeking to cut Social Security) is always fun. In this case, to make them … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Rationing Health Care

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Ampersand

════ ⋆★⋆ ════════ ⋆★⋆ ════════ ⋆★⋆ ════ A common objection to single-payer health care in the US is that it would lead to health care being rationed. And I wonder, in what parallel universe do they live where the US … Continue reading →

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Comic: The Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, and if you’re inclined to, and if you have the money, and if doing so wouldn’t break any religious rules or local laws, you can support my Patreon. I make a living from lots of … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Selective Heartlessness, aka, On Employers Who “Can’t Afford” Paying A Living Wage

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Ampersand

The fall of Rome was caused by not enough Romans supporting my Patreon. So sad! If only there were some way of preventing our civilization from suffering the same terrible fate… I penciled a bunch of this one during a … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Kids Today Are So Lazy

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, then you’re a terrible terrible person and you should definitely consider a mountain retreat to work on your spiritual size, say five to eight years of contemplating the pine trees, going barefoot and living only … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: The Right-Winger’s Guide to Labor Economics

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Ampersand

For want of a shoe the shoelace was lost. For want of a shoelace the shoefly was lost. For want of a shoefly the flyover states were lost. For want of the flyover states the state of grace was lost. … Continue reading →

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