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Should Pay Pensions SOCIOLOGISTS OPINION Professor Frank G. Dickinson, sociologist, recommended that taxes to meet the United States old age pension costs should be levied on bachelors, spinsters and childless married couples The originator of a mathematical system cf rating college teams, Professor Dickinson, of the University of Illinois, advanced his theory in a talk prepared for delivery before a luncheon of the Union League Club. Sociology, be said, recognises that no generation repays the cost of its rearing to tho parents who laboured, worried and economised, but that this debt is discharged as each generation rears another group of children. “Those adults who furnish no offspring dodge, avoid and refuse payment for their own conception, birth and rearing,” he said. “If they refuse voluntarily to pay their debts to society, the State should tax them to pay the cost of old age assistance. “Adults without progeny should bear this burden! That is social security, with social justice.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 6
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