Video: Pay your taxes and stretch your legs: the work of American cartoonists
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Nobody wants to deliver hard-earned "killed raccoons" to their homeland. After all, money is not a smile: if you share it with someone, then it is not a fact that they "will return to you more than once." However, why not make such an unpleasant procedure as filing a tax return a reason for a smile: sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad, sometimes caustic? Foreign cartoonists tried to combine business with pleasure and socially useful and show what happens on April 15, the last day of filing tax returns in the United States. And also tell readers what a tax return and a colonoscopy have in common and what modern torture looks like through the eyes of cartoonists.
1. Evolution of torture
People always knew how and loved to give each other pain and trouble. Now the rack, now the wheel, now the Spanish boot will be invented. Modern torture has only become more sophisticated, according to cartoonist Gary McCoy. Bloodsucker executioners deprive fellow citizens of their blood.
2. Taxoscopy
A variation on modern torture by cartoonist Joe Heller. What could be worse than a colonoscopy, joked, probably in all American TV shows? Only taxation - washing out all the remaining money.
3. Tax in broad daylight
"May be enough? I have just paid my taxes! " - the robbery victim rages. You can still count on the sympathy of a man with a gun, but the state tax machine is unforgiving, says cartoonist Steve Kelley.
4.15th of the spring month of Nisan
As you know, April 15 in the United States is the last day for filing tax returns. The onset of this date is a big surprise for the gape of citizens. Downright "winter suddenly crept up in December." The poor fellows are knocked out with a full-length April hook on the right. Cartoonist Jeff Parker saw it himself.
5. Hellish day
Tax Day, which is also celebrated on April 15th, is a really hellish date. Cartoonist John Trever believes that in the underworld, April 15th is every day.
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