3. The scheme is a definite encroachment upon private

3. The scheme is a definite encroachment upon private insurance business. If the government has the right to engage in ' the sale of insurance—not even on a competitive basis, but on a COMPULSORY basis —hasn’t it a similar right to ^engage in the printing business, which happens to be my own trade It is not my ox that is being gored, but the ox is an American ox and I cannot willingly see it slaughtered. Insurance people, like many others, thought the program would be “a help" when it began. Now they are beginning to see the communistic beginning in its true light4.

The scheme is immoral and actually illegal for it robs, although it is clothed in the garments of Congressional sanction. The billions of social security have been squandered, not kept in a trust fund. Any insurance company that did such a thing would have landed behind the penitentiary bars long since!

5. Its status is indefinite, Is a tax? If so, why not be honest about it (Excuse it, please. I forgot the policy of the New Deal administration!) Is it insurance? Then why not call it by its proper name? It is neither fish nor fowl. But if it be TAX, where is the authority to levy this ADDITIONAL tax over and above INCOME TAX? If it be insurance, when and how did the government get the right to engage in insurance business for non-military people ? *

6. The scheme is unAmerican. The whole theory of, Americanism is independence, self-reliance, pride, and - self-respect; it- is a theory of indi- ' vidualism. Americanism seeks to build sane, sound, “wise and frugal” government; it does not lend itself to plans which will ultimately destroy us. Under this iniquitous compulsory EDICT. Americans todaycan be jailed or have their property confiscated for merely following their usual American routine. This is sim