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Name: Thomas Gasuku
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Political Cartoons In public discourse, political cartoons play a critical role on important issues that are historically facing the country. Through a formal analysis, the paper looks at political cartoons in three levels; individual, state and system level. 1. Individual level

From the cartoon, a man in a black suit is seated. A lady peeps eagerly waiting to hear from the boss. The man instructs the lady to write a press release aimed at stopping Pope from touching issues to do with scientists. The above cartoon depicts an event which took place recently where republication leaders order Pope Francis to stop discussing issues to do with climate change. Practically, Jeb Bush, the Florida governor claimed that scientific experts are the online people who can give reliable information regarding global temperature changes (Iserbyt & Charlotte 2011). They have designed crooked ways of shutting down the utterances of Pope Francis one of which is to hire scientists to disapprove the Pope’s utterances. 2. State Level

The Hart City Council has introduced Hartford commuter tax whereby business owners must book a ticket costing $5. In essence, the council looks forward to punish Hartford residents who supported dearly Luke Bronin’s Mayoral Campaigns. It remains symbolic as they claim that this is a fine for investors who established large businesses with more 70 employees in the State (Falcocchio, John and Levinson 2015). The council seems to be in financial problems and the surest way of fixing such problems is by introducing high taxes. Seemingly, residents indirectly pay for everything from paying for property repairs, sewer, lights, water and the building of state offices. 3. System Level

The cartoon brings into focus two committees solving an issue. The first team discusses on how to increase profits while the latter finds ways of boosting public funds. Recently, there was a crisis in the business world whereby many businesses registered low profits. On the other hand, revenue for the government reduced (Falcocchio, John and Levinson 2015). The US government passed policies aimed at increasing taxes without increasing salaries of workers. For instance, in the state of Nevada, the similar problem emerged. Ideally, the government should find sophisticated ways of controlling public funds rather than increasing taxes. US government can consider reducing its expenditures while encouraging citizens to work hard.

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