How Sinclair wanted to help the nation economically was his EPIC plan. A sixty page pamphlet that described a two year plan to end poverty in California. One of his key plans was # 11 of his pamphlet “the remedy is to give the workers access to the means of production and let them produce for themselves not for others.” The resources made would help take over farms that had not been used which give more jobs to the unemployed. Some other points he had was individual income tax, inheritance tax, property tax relief for small homeowners and public programs.
The traditional Democrats did not like Sinclair’s success. About every institutional force feared and hated the campaign. Harry Chandler made a plan with other prominent Republicans to defeat him. For example Anti- Sinclair cartoons were mailed free of charge to newspapers. Eventually enough negative propaganda against Sinclair brought many against EPIC thinking it’s almost like communism.
The aftermath of it all