RADICAL METHODS IN CALIFORNIA
Combating the Depression UPTON SINCLAIR’S SCHEME ADOPTED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, (Received September 21, 10.10 p.m.)' Vancouver, September 20. The E.P.I.C. (the extinction of poverty in California) plan of Mr. Upton Sinclair, the Democratic nominee for the Governorship of California, by which unemployed men would be placed on idle farm lands and in defunct factories to produce their own necessities, was embodied virtually in full in the platform overwhelmingly adopted by the Democratic State Convention at Sacramento, California, today. Among those voting in favour of the jflatform was Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. As a first step in executing the epic plan, the platform anticipated an increase of the present State deficit of 30 million dollars to 130 million dollars.
The tax structure would be revised to repeal the sales tax on the necessities of life and to place income tax on corporations and individuals, just and moderate increases in bank and inheritances taxes, and an honest assessment of personal property and intangibles.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 7
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