This cartoon by Chris Britt shows a man representing "big business" walking away with a big "gift" - lots of tax breaks - and a man representing "middle class" walking away with a fruit cake (no tax breaks). Nearly all the cartoons I looked at were holiday-related, sriking a more sentimental and possibly angering chord that cartoonists are using to get their reader's attention. Overall, Britt is ridiculing Congress ( "xxoo Legislature" ) and giving the impression that legislation has been unfair to the middle class. The overbearance of big business is also reflected in the cartoon by the sheer size of the "gift" - it takes up most of the cartoon and dwarfs even Capitol Hill in the background. The economy continues to be a major issue of Obama's presidency, and the cartoon could especially be referring to problems as a result of the payroll tax cuts that Americans have been enjoying the past few years. The cartoonist's point of view is evidently that tax cuts given to the wealthy are unfair and only hurt the middle class, most likely putting him in a liberal and Democratic point of view.
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