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The Scottish-accented thrifty duck is one of the two ducks from within Donald Duck's mind who try to encourage him in his money-spending habits, encouraging him to save his money to pay taxes and fund war efforts instead of spending.

A tug-of-war ensues between "spend" and "save" with Donald caught in the middle. Eventually the two sides give way and crash on opposite ends of Donald to reveal the "true" selves: the doors of the bad duck's club are revealed to be swastikas and the bad duck himself turns out to bear a resemblance to Hitler (his bow tie is now a swastika and he has grown Hitler's characteristic mustache) while the wall the good duck has crashed up against resembles the flag of the United States.

The narrator then asks the audience if they are going to "spend for the Axis" or "save for taxes". Having made the seemingly obvious choice, Donald is assumed to shake hands with the bad duck, but it is revealed that he heads over to the bad duck to punch him out at the last second. He then goes to proudly pay his taxes with the good duck.

*The Spirit of '43 (1943)

*''The Spirit of '43'' was commissioned by the US Government, and therefore automatically public domain.
*Thrifty Duck would eventually be refined into the character of Scrooge McDuck.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2743 Wikipedia]
*[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2743 Disney Wikia]
*[https://archive.org/details/TheSpiritOf43_56 Internet Archive]
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