BIRTH-RATE AND TAXATION
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—After reading several letters in "The Post" regarding the declining 'birth-rate, I noticed that there is never any mention of the taxing of fathers of large families, which is being done [at present, and which will keep on (being imposed till someone in authority wakes up and finds that it is most unfair. Now, Sir, my husband should receive £4 19s 2d weekly, but by the time the unemployment tax is taken out it is reduced by 3s 4d weekly, in addition to the levy of 5s every three months. A very small amount of course, everyone will say. But there is this to it: that men working alongside him have no children, and some are single men, who are taxed just the same as my husband, who is helping to keep the "cradles full." It is wrong to tax a man with six children under 14 years of age to the same extent as a man with no family or a single man, and until something is done for people who are willing to bear the burden of parenthood I am afraid there will be no improvement in the birth-rate. I would advocate no taxing of parents with throe or more children, and free hospital at-j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 8
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