К предыдушему:
Забавно, что никто не проассоциировал источник идеи, хотя "Одноэтажную Америку" небось все читали:

Этот вопль полицейского друга народа из штата Луизиана напоминал манеру
недавно убитого луизианского сенатора Хью Лонга, который тоже считал себя
"другом народа", ... и требовал разделения богатств, всех богатств, за
исключением пяти миллионов, которые по мысли Хью Лонга, необходимо было
оставить каждому миллионеру.

Вот собственно подробности: Share Our Wealth

Share Our Wealth was a movement begun during the Great Depression by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana.

Major provisions of "Share Our Wealth"

The key planks of the Share Our Wealth platform included:

1. No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 100 to 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $1.5 million and $5 million. Income taxes would be levied to ensure this. Annual capital levy taxes would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.
2. Every family was to be furnished with a homestead allowance of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country. Every family was to be guaranteed an annual family income of at least $2,000 to $2,500, or not less than one-third of the average annual family income in the United States. Yearly income, however, cannot exceed more than 100 to 300 times the size of the average family income.
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