From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man with a "Kick" sign on his back is shown being flipped or tripped after a wallet he stooped to pick up from the pavement is yanked away. The wallet is labeled "Tax cuts, steady...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. This cartoon is in three parts. In the first frame, Gerald Ford speaks from a podium which carries the seal of the Vice-President. Richard Nixon stands behind and below Ford....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A heavy man labeled "Tax cuts...Exemptions" is standing on a scale that dispenses weights and fortunes. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen stands behind the scale and sticks his arm...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large box labeled "$11 billion foreign aid" is floating in a stream and is nearly to the edge of a waterfall labeled, "Spending cuts." Ronald Reagan is on one side of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Louisiana politician stands under an approaching dark grey cloud and cuts his eyes toward the cloud. Jagged lightning is labeled "Earnings tax." The man says, "I wasn't...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man [Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill?] labeled "Demo. House" is dressed as the Easter Bunny and is digging a hole beside a tree on the lawn of the White House. A large basket...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is covered in cuts and bruises and has a bandaged foot and leg. Using a crutch, he is moving toward the United Nations building. He also holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A nervous Ronald Reagan is being squeezed between a rock labeled "Budget deficit" and a military tank with the barrel of the gun pointed at his face. Reagan is using a handsaw...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant dressed as Santa Claus is riding in a sleigh pulled by reindeer as they fly over homes. Large sacks are in the sleigh and are labeled, "Tax cuts for one and...
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. David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, leans back against his desk. He holds a large pair of scissors labeled, "Drastic spending cuts." He is looking...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In front of a door/building labeled "Department of Defense," two men face off, glaring at each other. The man labeled "Cap the knife" is Caspar Weinberger, and he is holding a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is a line of very large footprints labeled “Local revenue needs…Fed. budget cuts.” A man labeled “Chehardy” is walking in the opposite direction,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is standing in a wooden stall or kiosk labeled, "Public workers' aid center...Outgrowth of fed. budget cuts." A first aid kit hangs from a nail at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen sits at a desk in a doctor's office. On the desk in front of him is a stethoscope. Across from Treen is a man labeled "Legislature" sitting in a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and a man labeled “Legislature" and are looking at a large black X on the floor in front of them. The X is labeled, "103 million in spending...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards stands beside a sauna where a man labeled "Deficit" is closed up inside. Only his head can be seen, and the facial expression is one of...
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 Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a baseball player with a shirt labeled "Balanced budget team." He is looking upward at a baseball overhead, labeled, "Senate's tax cuts tied to...
