AJ Fowler: Huey Long: 'Share the Wealth'

Source:AJ Fowler- Governor Huey Long (Democrat, Louisiana) in 1934.

Source:The Daily Times 

“December 1934. Huey Long speaks passionately about income inequality and the wealthy in the United States.”

From AJ Fowler 

The socialist side of Huey Long coming out that basically no one is entitled to a certain amount of money in society. Other than to meet their basic needs, even if they create all of that money for themselves. Not sure if Huey was supporting lets say an excise tax on wealthy individuals to give to the people who do not have enough money or not.

With this excise tax going to government and then government decides how much money individuals need which is part of the socialist philosophy of there shouldn’t be any rich, middle or poor people and that it’s the job of the central government to prevent that from happening. That the central government should collect the nation’s resources and then give them back based on what they believe people need to live well.

And the central government does this by basically collecting most of the resources in society and then giving that money back to people based on what it believes that people need to live well. I’ll look it up in the future to see if that’s what Senator Huey Long believed in. But from this video he did seem to believe that it was it was unfair for a few people to be so rich while others are struggling. And that government should play a bigger role to see that no one is poor and perhaps no one is rich.