February 24, 2014 8:43AM 

# Inspectors All Round 

By [Walter Olson](https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson) 

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![British 1929 Conservative Party poster on socialism and inspectors](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/download-remote-images/upload.wikimedia.org/219338380403/Socialism_Would_Mean.jpg?itok=99SwuMjW) 

I like everything about this British political poster, including the way the smoke coming out of the chimneys forms tiny question marks. It was employed in the [1929 election](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1929) against Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour Party. The artist is reported as V. Hicks. If only it weren’t still so relevant! ([Wikimedia link](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Socialism_Would_Mean.jpg))

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