Plutocracy In A Panic
Ervin, Charles W.
Plutocracy In A Panic Insurgent Congressmen Feel People's Resentment Against The Democrat-G. O. P. Coalition By Charles W. Ervin ^A^ASHINGTON.—Anyone who thinks Hiat the majority of the members...
...The Democratic machine was brought into action to put over tax measures which would protect the coffers of the plutocracy...
...They have a dread of that hell of the politician—a placeless existence...
...Absolutely none except a difference of the method to be followed in picking the pockets of the people...
...v Sometliing liai>pened back home when the Demo-cratic House Committee reported out the sales-tax...
...They are insurgents at the moment because they have a great desire to continue to be members of Congress...
...O. P. Coalition By Charles W. Ervin ^A^ASHINGTON.—Anyone who thinks Hiat the majority of the members of the insurgent army now engaged in fighting against the sales-tax are actu-' ated by a real desire to look after the interests of the great producing and consuming mass does not know his political onions...
...Now the Democrats are backing up a Republican President serving the plutocracy just as faithfully as did a Democratic President in the war days...
...Their political henchmen wearing different labels in order to foojnhe people must now join forces openly in a stand'ro help the lords of industry and finance maintain their power...
...It's true that Wilson could have kept his promise, and didn't...
...Plutocracy in a panic has now projected both parties on to the national screen in such a way that no longer can their oneness in service to the House of Have be hidden from the mass of the people...
...What the end will le a few days will tell...
...The two major parties have year after year supplied incontrovertible evidence of the truth of this statement...
...And what is more the budget could be made much larger tlian it it and it should l»e made larger...
...Not a.doubt...
...The leader "of the little army, LaGuardia, who, as a member of Congress, owes allegiance to no party, and also a small group of Progressives would have voted against the Democratic-Republican sales-tax provision as a matter of sincere protest...
...There was little trouble in handling him or his staff in the various key positions...
...Out of committee promptly came a tax measure with a sales-tax which Democratic national conventions had denounced as iniquitous...
...Whatever the result the battle will move on to the finance Committee of the Senate and to the floor of that Ixxly whose members cannot be controlled by the sort of rules which govern the proceedings of the House...
...Protests from back home, however, grew in volume and those representatives who were supposed to have been put straight by the Democratic and Republican leaders got out of line again...
...For years the spokesmen of the Socialist Party have been telling the people that there is no difference between the Republican and Democratic Party...
...Hoover promised them "prosperity" and wc all know we didn't get it...
...But then Hoover lied when he promised something that it was not in his power to deliver...
...It is there that tax measures must originate...
...And the voters back home can consign them to this hell next November...
...The Republicans backed up a Democratic President who had betrayed the interests of the people...
...The capitalist class through its Democratic and Republican retainers plunged us into war and then plunged us into enormous debt the interest on which amounts to hundreds of millions per year...
...Not only are the rich allowed to escape paying at least part of what they should through the income lax provisions but out of the estimated $585,000,000, which would come from a sales tax only about one-fifth would come out of those with incomes above $5,000...
...Where is a provision in the budget for the relief of the millions of victims of the Black Plague of...
...The balance would come out of those with less than this income...
...At the same time the capitalist class amassed billions of new wealth...
...The capitalist system today is not merely creaking as it has in various periods of the past but is cracking in every direction and already a part of it has actualb/tlisintegrated...
...They now have the immense impudence, when an attempt is made to take but a small part of it from them through the taxing power of the state, to call it "confiscation" and to place the greatest burden on the mass of the people through means Of a sales-tax...
...The excuse for violating |heir principles was that an "emergency" faced the government and the budget must be balanced through taxation...
...It's also true that Hoover couldn't keep his...
...The help came at once from the leaders of both parties...
...Is there any doubt that the budget could be balanced without a sales-tax if the rich were compelled to \n\y a decent share of taxes...
...Treasury, and went among the scared Republicans...
...Have known that both served the lords of industry and finance when they were- put in political power...
...When the government, under the Democratic Party, [Hit us into a war, it refused to tax the rich to pay the expenses of the murder game and put out billions of bonds...
...And it is an added burden, as already the larger amount of the taxes the plutocracy pays is passed on to the pcaplc through their control of the financial and industrial machinery of the nation...
...Which statement was a damnable lie...
...Wilson pledged the people to keep them out of war and broke his promise...
...It happens that the Democratic Party is in control of the House of Representatives...
...Unemployment: You will look for it tlicrc in vain...
...Raskob, the financial angel of the Democratic Party, whose money has paid for their big publicity machine for the last two years, went after the scared mcmben of his party .and tried to drive them into line...
...This in turn put billions into the pockets of the plutocracy and the interest on these billions of bonds the poor are now paying...
...That is the reason why we have such an enormous budget...
...The'Tnajority of the Republican and Democratic insurgents have no desire to be such...
...A few people have known for years that there was absolutely no difference between the two major parties in this country...
...In the past, however, they have been able to cover up with more skill than now...
...Pecan Jack Garner, a slick politician from Texas, was the Speaker of the House...
...This scared some of the Democratic members and also some of the Republicans and Garner and his staff1 sent out a call for help...
...Everyone knew what was going on...
...It was announced that the sales-tax would pass...
...At the same time came Raskob's fellow plutocrat, Mills, Secretary of the...
...The majority of the army are, however, but temporary insurgents against both political machines...
Vol. 13 • March 1932 • No. 13
