The zoot suit wearing hipster 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 spend his money on idle pleasures rather than to pay taxes and fund war efforts.

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.
*Similar to Thrifty Duck being a prototype of Scrooge McDuck, Spendthrift Duck is believed to be the predecessor of Gladstone Gander.
*The character was noted as being called "Zootie" in a newspaper article about the cartoon, the name refers to his "zoot suit" that he wears.

*[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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