rising costs
May
21
2025
The cartoon illustrates the rollout of a major GOP budget bill nicknamed the big beautiful bill. It shows billionaires in an exclusive club while a tuxedoed figure presents a $3.8 trillion debt scroll to a distressed man holding a please help sign. The piece critiques how tax cuts for the wealthy add trillions to the national debt with costs passed to middle and lower income groups.
May
12
2025
A couple relaxes on a yellow couch watching television when a movie rental offer appears on screen. The base price of $19.99 jumps to $147.99 once the Trump tariff is added. The woman comments on escaping into movies amid world events while the man reacts with dismay. The scene highlights rising costs for film rentals tied to proposed trade measures affecting foreign productions and streaming platforms.
Apr
29
2025
An elderly couple reads newspapers in their living room and reacts with surprise to a political cartoon about high egg prices. The scene captures public frustration with grocery costs and media coverage of inflation in late April 2025. The man points out the cartoon while the woman questions what topics will come next.
Apr
18
2025
The image shows a suited figure with distinctive hair and tie suspended beneath a massive dollar sign. The word TARIFFS appears in the upper left. Publication occurred on April 18 2025 during renewed focus on import taxes and their economic ripple effects.
Mar
13
2025
Dave Whamond's cartoon captures the irony of Trump alcohol tariffs, where a 200 percent tariff on European wine and alcohol threatens to escalate trade wars with the EU. Amid bad economic news like rising prices and stock market plunge, a weary viewer laments needing a drink, underscoring how such policies drive us to drink. Investors shaken by potential inflation and retaliatory tariffs on US whiskey and bourbon face higher costs for alcoholic beverages. The image highlights consumer burdens in this economy, blending humor with critique of trade escalation.
Feb
3
2025
A red cap labeled Make Inflation Great Again rests beside a sale sign with prices crossed out and rising to 17.50. The image links proposed tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico to increased consumer costs in early 2025.
Jan
14
2025
On January 14 2025 a cartoon depicts two men at a bar discussing the economic shock of import tariffs. The exchange focuses on the sudden awareness that duties on foreign goods drive up everyday costs. This reflects ongoing debates over trade policy and its effects on inflation and consumer spending.
Nov
30
2024
The cartoon shows Trump inside a circular wall labeled 'TARIFFS,' declaring he built the wall, with a figure marked 'CONSUMERS' puzzled that it's supposed to keep people out. Tags like trump, tariffs, threats, Mexico, Canada, China, trade, wall, prisoner, consumers underscore the irony. The image critiques how tariffs meant to protect against foreign threats from Mexico, Canada, and China end up trapping domestic consumers like prisoners. This visual metaphor draws on Trump's famous wall promise, flipping it to show trade policies harming those inside. The dry humor lies in the reversal, where the wall imprisons rather than excludes, commenting on economic fallout.
