a third O.T. Katie thread

[web-ed]

Let me add my accolades, b00m, and apologies if this response is a little discursive - I lost everything I had written here ( ) and now need to reconstruct it very quickly. Like Dan, I loved your government revenue department of GREED - truly the real robber barons of this world now as they were in the past are in the government, not private industry. "Revenue Enhancement" is exactly the kind of euphemism for a tax increase that we have come to expect from the government. A 150% tax - what a brilliant idea! As much as Katie deserves to be seen by the widest possible audience, I can only hope that the leaders of a certain political party, which shall remain nameless here, don't see this strip and get any ideas! We should probably note at this point that Dan did a tax-themed spanking cartoon himself some years ago, although it was thematically entirely different.

Good spanking panel as usual with both pairs of Katie's cheeks blushing pink. She learns a hard but valuable lesson - that as she goes through life, she's destined to get spanked repeatedly - and I hope she realizes that such knowledge is worth paying a price for.

I also really liked the taxman singing "Taxman" as he takes away every cent of Katie's gold. There is in fact a very definite possibility that the confiscatory tax rates in England contributed to the Beatles' break-up, although Brian Epstein's death of course looms large. This theory is hotly disputed in certain quarters, but the interested reader can find the story here.

[hugob00m]

"Revenue Enhancement" is exactly the kind of euphemism for a tax increase that we have come to expect from the government. A 150% tax - what a brilliant idea! As much as Katie deserves to be seen by the widest possible audience, I can only hope that the leaders of a certain political party, which shall remain nameless here, don't see this strip and get any ideas!

I actually ran across that euphemism in a news story once, and it came back to me when I was trying to think of an agency to put into my story. We can only hope that if the goventment actually levies a 150% tax, it will only be on Leprechaun gold.

What happened to the Beatles was almost that bad. With all the money they made in their early years, the English govenrment took 95%.

[daneldorado]

It wasn't only The Beatles. Another British band, The Rolling Stones, found themselves faced with a 98 per cent tax bill for some of its income.

Remember the lyric from The Beatles’ “Tax Man” of “One for you, nineteen for me”? Well the truth was not far from this, the rate was 83% for earned income and 98% for un-earned income! This led to the Stones' self-imposed exile to Southern France.

Ya know, I am not rich, I'm just a middle-class American. But the notion that a country can confiscate NINETY-EIGHT PER CENT of a person's income makes my blood boil. Unfortunately, it looks as if the Obama administration is dead set on raising taxes on the top one per cent of earners. The really sad thing is that, once that tax hike becomes reality, it will probably be increased a little each year, until every last businessman moves to another country, leaving us with no entrepreneurs at all.

But still, we've got O.T. Katie....

Cheers,
Dan

[jimc]

Sorry b00m i was away for a few weeks and missed your last OT Katie episode. I enjoyed it all. The otk position, Katie's movements; the songs, the coloring, (the Greed office in the story was a work of art in itself) the blushes' the curve of the panties around the bottom, the swell of the bottom and i also like how her hair does seem to fall when she is otk as well. i enjoy katie's adventures and i do think you tell the story better over a few panels rather than just one panel and it is longer than a single panel and that makes the proportions better. Well done. and Thank you have a great day.
Jim

[willjohn]

When the Beatles and the rolling stones were starting out Britain was still rebuilding after the Second World War.

Somebody had to pay for it and the poor did not have the money.

[hugob00m]

Somebody had to pay for it and the poor did not have the money.

The trouble with taxing the rich is that the poor always wind up paying! If the rich put their money into the economy by buying things and hiring people, then the rest of us have jobs, but if their money all goes down the sinkhole of the tax system, we all suffer with high inflation and jobs going overseas! That was the lesson that the U.K. learned the hard way in the '60s and '70s.

[web-ed]

It wasn't to rebuild England that the rich were to be taxed at 98%, it was simply to cut them down in the spirit of egalitarianism which had taken hold early in the 20th century. Indeed, had it not been for the corrosive effects of socialism, England would not have been so unready for war with Germany - so weak, not to put too fine a point on it - as she was. Had England and France been stronger, they might have been able to stop Germany early on, and the final costs of the war would have been far less than they were.

Somebody had to pay for it and the poor did not have the money.

Actually, the rich didn't have the money, either - they never do - the middle class did, but eventually they couldn't afford the bills, either. You probably remember Margaret Thatcher's observation that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. I say that in no spirit of American superiority - if Europe hasn't yet learned its lesson, then America hasn't learned Europe's lesson yet either, and we're following not too far behind it on the path to destruction. Taxing the "rich" (by the Emperor Barack's definition, those couples and businesses making $250,000, perhaps for the first and only time in their lives) won't save us, nor should it. Taxes discourage production, and I think anyone who doesn't know this basic fact of economics should be disqualified from holding any public office.

We have a number of states here in the U.S. that are trying to close budget gaps (created by excessive welfare spending and business regulation) by imposing a "Millionaire's tax". The predictable result? Those "millionaires" are taking themselves, their money, their businesses, and their jobs out of places like California, New York, and New Jersey, and heading for greener pastures. The same holds true on a national level. If the government were trying to steal 98% of your money, or even 55% of your money, wouldn't you leave for a low tax jurisdiction? Or failing that, wouldn't you put your money where the greatest portion of it would remain untaxed? How many businesses will not be started because high taxes make it more profitable to invest capital somewhere else? How many jobs will not be created? How many jobs are going overseas because employers can't afford the costs imposed by an ever-growing government here? If you've wondered how the economic miracle that is America could find itself reduced to seemingly-permanent levels of unemployment in excess of 16% (the "official" U-3 number of 9% is bullshit), now you know.

There are, however, deep rumblings of protest here in America that give cause for hope - not the mindless protests we see in Greece, where people riot over the "right" to take and spend what doesn't belong to them, but protesters demanding that government stop stealing the products of their labor in order to fund a bloated welfare state. No one, and in a democracy, no majority, has the right to confiscate the property of their fellow citizens on the specious grounds that those citizens are wealthy and can "afford" to pay more in taxes. On this question the fate of the civilized world now depends, for if we in America fail to reverse the trend toward statism (which will always involve confiscatory levels of taxation), the country will collapse, and we'll take Europe down with us because we've been propping it up for decades.

It had been my honest intention to leave politics out of the CSR Forum, but I've failed - repeatedly, I admit. I've scorned DC's "Liberal" worldview, laughed at Green Arrow's social relevance, and ridiculed those who favor high taxes. We've wandered far away from the subject of spanking, and I can only hope no one is too offended.

[hugob00m]

It had been my honest intention to leave politics out of the CSR Forum, but I've failed - repeatedly, I admit. I've scorned DC's "Liberal" worldview, laughed at Green Arrow's social relevance, and ridiculed those who favor high taxes. We've wandered far away from the subject of spanking, and I can only hope no one is too offended.

I suppose it's my fault for introducing the "Anti Irish Tax of 1848" that we got into talking about taxes and politics. I'll say one more thing and then get off of taxes. The "trickle-down" theory sometimes works with prosperity, but it always works with taxation. When taxes are raised on the rich, the poor always wind up paying.

[web-ed]

No b00m, it's not your fault at all, which is why I took responsibility. You did not inject any heavy-handed political commentary into your entertaining strip, O.T. Katie, you merely employed a rather light, humorous satire of government greed as part of a story whose primary purpose was, to repeat, entertainment. No one could reasonably mistake your incidental (and legitimate) targeting of government excess for the heavy-handed agitprop of Oliver Stone or Dick Wolf. The 150% tax was incidental to the story, a means to a greater end (and I don't just mean Katie's rear ), and not an end in itself. Nor was it particularly partisan - there is no implication that Democrats are the bad guys and Republicans the good guys. Contrast that with the execrable television series of Dick Wolf, where Conservative Republicans are always evil (sometimes even being mentioned by name, for example John Ashcroft, even though the work is supposed to be fictional) and Left-wing Democrats are always the heroes.

No, it was I who simply couldn't resist a sly poke at the Democratic Party, which I frankly despise, and even though my tone wasn't strident, my remarks could still have been considered provocative by members of that party or their sympathizers abroad (say European Social Democrats or Liberals). And the problem with that is I want all spankos everywhere regardless of political affiliation to feel welcome here at CSR, and to enjoy the spanking material we have to offer. Lefty Democrats should be able to enjoy O. T. Katie even if they believe a 150% tax to be only slightly excessive rather than the outrage to decency it is in my view. So if anyone felt my comments were inappropriate to this forum, I apologize, although not for the comments themselves, which were dead-on.

As a matter of fact, there is little or no conservative advocacy in literature or movies, and the reason lies in the nature of conservatism itself. The Left wants one thing primarily - power - and that means a centrally-planned economy. But for central planning to have any hope of working, it is essential that everyone agree with the plan. (This was one of Hayek's great observations). Dissent is therefore dangerous to the leftist, who then seizes upon the arts as tools of political persuasion, or given the dishonesty of the presentation involved, the better term would be political propaganda. That is why you will never see, for instance, a television drama in which a man is able to save lives because he's carrying a concealed handgun, even though thousands of such incidents occur every year in real life (and are studiously ignored and unreported by the left-leaning news media). Conservatives (and Libertarians) are not fundamentally interested in organizing society along any particular plan, and therefore tend to separate politics from art. An important exception would be Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which was primarily political philosophy dressed in the clothing of an old-fashioned thriller plot. (Rand didn't see herself as conservative or even like conservatives, but that's another matter).

But politics can't always be completely separated from art, and there are good ways and bad ways of bringing it in. The satirical elements of O.T. Katie or the musical Of Thee I Sing (1931) are the good way. So b00m - none of this is your fault. Please go on telling Katie's stories, even if politics must enter into them a little. And I'll try to leave my political views in more politically-oriented forums.

[hugob00m]

I've just started this week on a new O.T. Katie cartoon. I'm not sure yet how long it's going to take me to finish it, but before I post it, I'm going to narrate some events that occur between my previous story and the next one. There are some things that I've envisioned happening that I'm not going to draw the panels for, since they don't lead directly to Katie getting spanked (which is, after all the whole point of O.T. Katie), but perhaps need to be explained for subsequent stories to make sense.

First, there is the comeuppance of McGreedy the taxman. I'm making up a new twist on the legend of Leprechaun gold... The gold that is given by Haigh Hugh Kidd becomes the property of the person it's given to. It can be kept, traded, or given away. But if it's stolen, it disappears and eventually reappears in the home of its rightful owner. And if it's confiscated by the government for taxes, it also disappears... but it goes back to Haigh's treasure trove. So then, when agent McGreedy reports back to his supervisor, he does so empty-handed! Not only does he not have the gold, but there is no evidence that it ever existed!

Without the gold, and the threat of being reported for having it, Katie no longer has a reason to keep working for Mr. Fitz... that is, if she can find another job. When she turns in her notice, Fitz is furious, but not at Katie. He wants to know who the @#$% turned her in? (It was Clorene)

When Mr.Kauf retired and left Mr. Fitz in charge, he neglected to sign over to him the immunity he had from sexual harrassment lawsuits, and so, eventually, Ms. Ann Thorpe is going to find out about his vulnerability and go after him.

So then, that's what's going to be in between my previous story and the next one. Katie is no longer working for Mr. Fitz, and no longer sitting on a fortune of gold... (not that she was able to do much sitting back when she had the gold! Heh heh!)

[overbarrel49]

hi boom,

it all sounds great to me . i'll be waiting for you to post this one. thanks, phil

[daneldorado]

First of all, I wish to address Nick, our fabulous "Web-ed."

You are absolutely correct in everything you said about the harm that left-leaning liberals are imposing on this country, and by extension the entire world. The whole house of cards will collapse if any more of the Emperor's ideas are brought to fruition, and I dread that day because I love the America that I grew up in.

That's enough political commentary. Web-ed says it better than I ever could, so let's move on to our primary raison d'être: spanking of beautiful ladies.

For b00m:

I almost got dizzy, reading your commentary about your upcoming OTKatie strip. Wow, you like your plots complex, don't you? That is one intricate scenario! But I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

And, if my guess is correct, you may have to rename your comic strip "O.T.Klorene!" It looks as if she (Clorene) is going to be on the receiving end this time (again)! And you're talking about re-introducing Ms. Ann Thorpe to your strip. That will be interesting, especially with Phil (overbarrel) currently working on a story about an African-American girl getting spanked. Ms. Thorpe will make it two!

Looking forward to your masterpiece to come.

Cheers,
Dan

[web-ed]

Dan - thanks.

b00m,

You certainly have your new story well-planned. I think it's a great idea to have the leprechaun's gold disappear if it's stolen (which it was, really, by McGreedy). I'd point out this is morally similar to the pirate Ragnar Danneskjold in Atlas Shrugged who takes back income tax receipts from the government, but we don't want to get started on that again!

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Katie's new adventure along with everyone else.

[solsunbeach]

I have been fortunate to have followed Boom's wonderful character OTKatie for the last 10 years. She has a personality which is now possibly defunct in modern life, so it is all the more appealing ,when brought to life by Boom's talent. I see her as a 50's icon, dragged over the knees of 20th century manhood. I look forward to her next adventures, and possibly a repost of the earliest adventures of this delightful character?

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

REALLY LOVE KATIE AND HOPE TO SEE PLENTY MORE OF HER!! With a bottom like that no wonder it always getting spank Katie reminds me of a comic book name Candy meaning whoever this woman meet they wanted to have sex with her only in Katie case it spanking and who can blame them this woman has a very very spankable bottom.Cannot wait to see her getting spanked again!! THANKS BOOM!!

[hugob00m]

Well, I've gone in a slightly Science Fiction-ish direction with my latest O.T. Katie strip. Katie hasn't gone back to being a mad scientist, or an evil super-vilainess, but she has a bit of a mess left over from when she was. Can she keep the clones she made of herself in stasis indefinitely? If not, what's going to happen to them?

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This story is going to answer that question.

[hugob00m]

Here's the next part...

[hugob00m]

...And now, I introduce a new character...

[hugob00m]

...And goodbye clone-o-matic!

[hugob00m]

...The clone that got away is caught... but in a different costume than before!