{"id":13408,"date":"2011-06-08T02:04:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2011-06-08T02:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T09:04:53","slug":"cartoon-the-economic-policy-rainbow-republican-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13408","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Economic Policy Rainbow (Republican Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftycartoons.com\/the-economic-policy-rainbow-republican-edition\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tax_cuts_cureall.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"tax_cuts_cureall\" width=\"575\" height=\"563\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tax_cuts_cureall.png 575w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tax_cuts_cureall-550x538.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spoiler]Panel 1<br \/>\nAngry middle-management white man: Government has gotten too damn big. That&#8217;s why I want to cut taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Panel 2<br \/>\nAnxious-looking white man: Unemployment is going down! That could create inflationary pressure! And the cure is tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Panel 3<br \/>\nPreppy looking white guy: The Federal deficit is unsustainable! That&#8217;s why I support major tax cuts!<br \/>\nWhite guy with mohawk: Wouldn&#8217;t tax cuts make the deficit bigger?<br \/>\nPreppy guy again: Math has a liberal bias.<\/p>\n<p>Panel 4<br \/>\nWide-eyed white woman: People with incomes above a quarter million face too great a burden! It&#8217;s inhuman! We must lower income taxes! (We can pay for it by defunding Medicaid.)<\/p>\n<p>Panel 5<br \/>\nGrinning white man in suit: Unemployment is high! If we slash taxes, then unemployment will definitely go down to 3%. Like it did under George Bush!<\/p>\n<p>Panel 6<br \/>\nYelling white man in disco suit: Fashion has inexplicably changed since my youth! We need tax cuts!<\/p>\n<p>CAPTION UNDER WHOLE CARTOON:<br \/>\nThe Economic Policy Rainbow (Republican Edition)[\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spoiler]Panel 1 Angry middle-management white man: Government has gotten too damn big. That&#8217;s why I want to cut taxes. Panel 2 Anxious-looking white man: Unemployment is going down! That could create inflationary pressure! And the cure is tax cuts. Panel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}