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Show GRASSROOTS Socialism in England 1$ Popular With Laborers By Wright A. Patterson THE DEFINITELY ANNOUNCED purpose of the English Labor party is to equalize the wealth and the income of the English people. That is a vote-catching program, especially in England, and it is a program which the party can carry out. It can and is being done through taxes. On an income, which in America would be considered of a reasonable amount, the government govern-ment is taking ninety five cents out of each dollar. Through taxes, it is easy to pull down the higher incomes, in-comes, and through "doles" it is easy to increase the lower ones. But the problem that must be faced is where the "something for nothing" that represent doles is to come from when the wealth of the nation has been taxed to extinction. Socialized medicine guarantees every one in- the British islands ' a doctor when needed, a place in a hospital when there is a vacancy, which means waiting as much as two years regardless of the urgency i trf the need. j means cheap doctor bills, but it j is killing the medical profession in England. The doctor is permitted to have as many as 4,000 patients, for which the government will pay him j $2.10 per year per patient, then ' promptly tax that doctor some 50 per I cent on his $8,000 income. With what ,is left he must provide all the ex-, ex-, penses of medical practice. i The result is that there is no ln-ducement ln-ducement for the new medical grad uate to hang out his shingle in Britain. Brit-ain. He goes to the dominions to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. The result will be that in time there will be no doctors doc-tors to administer to the poor, at any price or on any condition. On top of the income tax that runs to as high as 95 per cent, there is a purchase tax our sales tax which the merchants collect on every item you buy, other than the dire necessities of living, and that purchase tax ranges from 25 per cent on the amount of the purchase to as high as 150 percent of the total, on such automobiles as can be purchased, which is practically none of English make. They are produced for export only, as is true of most other of the better grade English productions. And along with these conditions there is the rationing. Each individual in-dividual can have two strips of bacon per week, two eggs, and whatever what-ever amount of meat of any kind he can buy for ten cents, with meat selling at prices as high, or higher, than we are paying in this country. Such are but a few examples of English rationing. Despite it all, English socialism is not too unpopular with the English En-glish workers. They are receiving more wages than they did, though they are paying far more taxes, far more living expenses, and living liv-ing far less better. Believing the program to be a vote-catcher, the Conservatives, like the Republicans in this country, as applied to the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, are inclined to approve ap-prove it all, only claiming they could do a better job. The Conservatives are against the Labor Party, but are for the Labor Party program, and they will not get any farther than the Republicans Re-publicans will get on the same basis in this country. The Fair Deal does not offer their program as socialistic. It is offered as welfare stale, or "planned "plan-ned economy," but the purpose is the same, that of equalizing the incomes in-comes of the American people. Should the Fair Deal continue in office, it will succeed in putting over its nefarious schemes. When they do, there will be nothing left for America but bankruptcy; there will be nothing left with which to provide the "something" for those who are clamoring for "something "some-thing for nothing" so they may continue to live without effort on their part. When they understand what is being offered them such conditions will not be favored by a majority of the American people. Will the Republicans tell us what the party proposes as its program, or must we continue on the socialistic trail? Gen. Ike will not get a two party and probably not a one party nomination nom-ination for the presidency. |