{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Strange Country Ep. 307: Huey Long","description":"While he may have been called a demagogue and a counterfeit Mussolini, Huey Long had some darn tootin\u2019 good ideas\u2014mainly taxing the rich into oblivion. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about Long\u2019s rise to populist power in the 1930s and the corruption in its wake, but also how much a 65% tax increase on the rich makes a whole lotta sense. Like Long said \u201cWe only propose that, when one man gets more than he and his children and children\u2019s children can spend or use in their lifetimes, that then we shall say that such person has his share. That means that a few million dollars is the limit to what any one man can own.\u201d Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Burns, Ken, director. Huey Long. PBS, 1985.   Ganz, John. "Swamp Creature." When the Clock Broke : Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked up in the Early 1990s, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, pp. 1-42.   \u201cGovernor Huey Long: Kidnapper.\u201d Medium, 21 November 2021, https:\/\/medium.com\/historys-trainwrecks\/governor-huey-long-kidnapper-52b69644141c. Accessed 15 November 2025.   Kolbert, Elizabeth. \u201cThe Big Sleazy.\u201d The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 12 June 2006, https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2006\/06\/12\/the-big-sleazy. Accessed 15 November 2025. White Jr., Lamar (April 2, 2018). "Huey P. Long wasn't assassinated"Bayou Brief. Archived from the original on June 9, 2020 White, Richard D. Kingfish : the Reign of Huey P. Long. Random House, 2006. ","author_name":"Strange Country ","author_url":"http:\/\/strangecountry.libsyn.com\/","html":"