CHILDLESS COUPLES
SHOULD PAY PENSIONS SCO 101 jOLIST’S OPINION CHICAGO, Jan. 27. Professor Frank G. Dickinson, sociologist,, recommended to-day 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 of 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, he said, recognises that no generation repays the cost of its rearing to the 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 oftspring dodge, avoid and refuse payment for their own conception, birth and rearing,” he said. “If they refuse voluntarily to pay their debt to society, the Stale 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 12
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