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Share Our Wealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Share Our Wealth was a movement begun during the Great Depression by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. The key planks of the Share Our Wealth platform included: •N...
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Huey Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Social Security history ... The Kingfish wanted the government to confiscate the wealth of the nation's rich and privileged. He called his program Share Our Wealth. ... Huey Long advocates the "Share The Wealth" program on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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As presented in "To The Members and Well-Wishers of the Share Our Wealth Society, " Congressional Record, 1935 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935) ... This plan of God does not call for destroying any of the things raised to eat or wear, nor does it countenance whole destruction of hogs, cattle or milk.
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He wanted the government to confiscate the wealth of the nation's rich and privileged. He called his program Share Our Wealth. ... Huey Long's Senate Speeches on Behalf of his Share the Wealth Plan...
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A call to 'spread the wealth' around is an old – and dangerous – theme. ... In an influential 1889 article titled "The Owners of the United States," crusading attorney Thomas Shearman argued that the lion's share of the country's wealth was in a limited number of hands.
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Poll: Voters Against Obama 'Wealth Redistribution' Plan ... By a more than two-to-one margin, undecided voters disagree with such efforts to redistribute wealth. In total, 57 percent of undecided voters said they disagreed, while only 24 percent said they agreed (19 percent are not sure).
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