{"id":17173,"date":"2013-05-01T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17173"},"modified":"2015-05-28T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:16:54","slug":"cartoon-the-minimum-wage-versus-the-earned-income-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17173","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Minimum Wage Versus The Earned Income Tax Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leftycartoons.com\/the-minimum-wage-versus-the-earned-income-tax-credit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/minimum-wage-vs-eitc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"minimum-wage-vs-eitc\" width=\"595\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/minimum-wage-vs-eitc.jpg 595w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/minimum-wage-vs-eitc-550x532.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spoiler]<br \/>\nThe cartoon shows two people arguing, a young woman with her hair in a ponytail, and an older man wearing a suit.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 1<br \/>\nWOMAN: We need to help low-income workers, we should <em>raise <\/em>the <em>minimum wage<\/em>!<br \/>\nMAN (thoughtfully): The minimum wage is inefficient. To <em>really <\/em>help low income workers, you&#8217;d have to raise the Earned Income Tax Credit.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 2<br \/>\nWOMAN (enthused): Sounds good! Let&#8217;s raise the Earned Income Tax Credit.<br \/>\nMAN (angry): NEVER! That would increase government spending!<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 3<br \/>\nWOMAN: But you just said&#8230;<br \/>\nMAN: What a <em>shame <\/em>there&#8217;s no policy that helps low-income workers <em>without <\/em>government spending.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 4<br \/>\nWOMAN (annoyed): You mean, like raising the minimum wage?<br \/>\nMAN (enthused): Hey, you know what poor people really need? Tax cuts for millionaires!<\/p>\n<p>SMALL ADDITIONAL PANEL AT END<br \/>\nWOMAN (enthused): We should raise both the minimum wage and the tax credit!<br \/>\nMAN: Give me a sec to work out why I&#8217;m against that.[\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[spoiler] The cartoon shows two people arguing, a young woman with her hair in a ponytail, and an older man wearing a suit. PANEL 1 WOMAN: We need to help low-income workers, we should raise the minimum wage! MAN (thoughtfully): &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17173\">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":[17,25,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-economics-and-the-like","category-minimum-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173","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=17173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17175,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions\/17175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}