From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is labeled "Dutch Reagan" and is dressed in the clothing, cap, and wooden shoes reminiscent of the boy in the Hans Brinker story. Reagan stands before a high wall...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed as a gas station attendant, leans against gas pumps at a station named "Jimmy's Service." A sign on the pump reads, "Help balance the budget and fill 'er...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is in a room labeled "Reagan lab" and he is wearing a white lab coat. He is standing under a sign that reads, "Pledges to cut taxes, hike defense spending and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a magician, and he is trying to pull a rabbit from the upturned hat on the table before him. In his mind's eye, Reagan is seeing a rabbit and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man identified as "Little ol' you-know-who" is walking through a clearing in a wooded area ringed by huge trees. The man is accompanied by Runtz's signature cat. The massive trees...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The hand and coat sleeve of Uncle Sam are shown. The sleeve is labeled "Surtax," and the hand is reaching into an open coin purse. Above this, the outline of a larger hand labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man holding a newspaper is looking back and forth between it and a clock on the wall. The clock face reads, "Election year." The newspaper headlines read, "State of the Union...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Dave Treen (drawn to resemble the Dickens character Bob Cratchit) sits on a stool at a writing desk, making entries with pen and ink into a large book that is open on the desk....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson stands beside a decorated Christmas tree and looks sideways at a large wrapped gift before him. The wrapping paper has "Surtax" all over it, and the gift tag...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and David Stockman stand together looking at a steamroller labeled "Tax cut coalition." The rollers are labeled, "Republicans" and "Southern Democrats." On the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A zoo keeper wearing coveralls labeled "92nd Congress" and carrying a lunchbox walks briskly away from his work when he sees the time on his pocket watch. He had been near the open...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon shows the gridlines of a chart and a rising trend line near the bottom labeled, "High price of everything." A man labeled "Price fixing" is running up the trend...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards is hitchhiking by the road holding a briefcase labeled, "First use tax" and with a sign around his neck labeled, "Going my way?" A transport...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is turning his head left and right so fast he appears to have two faces. The U.S. Capitol dome is seen over one shoulder. Looking to the left, Reagan is saying, "Grant tax...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A very obese man labeled "10% surtax" sits back from a table and wipes his mouth with the napkin that is tied around his neck. Two bones labeled "Viet war costs" and "Domestic...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a bar. He has a cigarette in his hand. On the bar are a pack of cigarettes, an empty shot glass with spilled liquor, and a bottle. Ronald Reagan and David Stockman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. A cut-out of Richard Nixon's face appears in a wall, and a man looking through it says, " Hmmm...this must be one of those tax loopholes I've been hearing about."
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to raise a revenue by direct taxation." By Mr. Sexton; Read first and second times, referred to Special Committee on Currency, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 16...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a magician in tie and tails. A huge top hat is upturned and labeled "Deepening fed. deficit" on the inside. Reagan is reaching deep into the hat to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elderly man labeled "Budget cuts...Tax cuts" is holding an ear trumpet to his year. Ronald Reagan is yelling into the trumpet, "I said I'm considering..." then whispers, "tax...
