After looking through many different political cartoons, I finally found one that really interested me. It used limited verbal rhetoric and focused mainly on the visuals. The picture is a spin-off of the famous wooden horse used in the Trojan War. On the side of the Trojan horse, the words “Health-Care Reform” are written. However, the wooden horse is open and men in black suits are walking out and on all their briefcases the acronym IRS is written. Universal health care was a huge debate over this past year but it did eventually get passed through congress after dozens of revisions. The cartoon artist obviously disagrees with having universal health care getting passed because he believes that this is simply a way that the IRS is going to tax the people. In a way, I agree with the author that health care being passed isn’t a good thing for our country but for different reasons. I have family in Canada and they say their universal health care system is awful. My aunt is also a doctor and she believes that this is simply going to hurt the general population’s ability to get their medical needs taken care of. The author doesn’t focus too much on using pathos and ethos, but focus’ on using logos to get us to agree with him. He’s using a historical reference and also saying that the IRS can tax us more to pay for universal health care which is true. Either way, this cartoon is a good one to look at.
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