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The greatest challenge to Roosevelt and the New Deal in the mid 1930s proved to be Sen. Huey P. Long of Louisiana, whose "Share- Our-Wealth" clubs, organized in early 1934, spread rapidly across the country. Millions of Americans supported Long's proposals. Calling for redistributing the nation's wealth through heavy taxation of the rich, Long's plan guaranteed every American an annual income of twentyfive hundred dollars (a middle-class income in the 1930s) and a "homestead allowance" of five thousand dollars. Critics considered the plan unworkable, and Roosevelt called Long "one of the two most dangerous men in America." Nevertheless, a poll conducted in mid 1935 found that Long would get 10 percent of the vote if he were to run for president. Soon after Long was assassinated in September 1935, the "Share-Our-Wealth" movement collapsed.
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