Left out, of course, is the working man, who Tom the Dancing Bug, as a Marxist, believes to be of the same class as the guy on welfare. Tom the Dancing Bug’s policies don’t redistribute from the richest of capitalists to the welfare recipients, but from the working man. Who then works for no more benefit than he would get if he was on welfare.

In this one, the capitalist pig-dog tells Lucky Ducky that increasing the price of labor will reduce consumption. Lucky Ducky replies “…but if a monopsonistic firm faces an upward-facing supply curve”, as if all the marginal workers are employed by Wal-Mart and McDonalds. This was written years ago; it reflects the left’s electoral strategy of accusing McDonalds every time it wants to increase the minimum wage. If the left actually cared about increasing the price of labor in this country, they would place a moratorium on immigration. Their hope is that

(1) an increased minimum wage will hold the price of labor up while the new immigrants go on welfare and vote progressive in return;

(2) marginal workers will vote progressive to thank the left for the minimum wage laws that protect their jobs from the immigrants the proggies let in;

(3) the artifical inflation in the cost of labor will cause inflation, which has the effect of taking money out of people’s savings and putting it in the economy, thereby stimulating the economy.

I think the most amazing thing about today’s progressives is that they have ideas about electoral strategy but believe that actual governing is best left protected from politics. Whoever comes up with the public policy ideas, it doesn’t matter, Tom the Dancing Bug’s function is to do outreach by making cartoons about how great they are.

The only step they need to take to be neoreactionaries is to renounce electoral politics completely, arguing that lying is always bad no matter what the cause, and request that the government be accountable.