TAXATION OF BACHELORS.
TO MAINTAIN SPINSTERS' HOMES. AN EXPERIMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA. ■.■■■it j qCh© eype«ment of Wing bachelors: is ae* tuaily to be tried in Pennsylrapia. It is not, as most people probalbly believe, on unprecedented fiscal device* $or it was tried both in England and Holland at the end oJj tho seventeenth canflwyr' Eiscal history records that the yield from: the ta*, considerable to begin with, rapidly di* minished, and that its consequences were mora pleasing to spinsters thaa to Qbaffioel* lpre of the Ibrohequer. In Penn^ylvani* th© idea is *o devote the proceeds of the impost to the maiatea'anee of homes in whicS spinsters may live at the publie charge, so thsut Ooaleba, whan tired of paying tajces, iuot ifpow where to go in search of a wife. It is just the sort of- practical notion, that one eypegte frgim I a practical people, and the progress of the experiment will be Watched with interest. Provided ttjafc no party arisen clamouring that any Benedict who Ukes to pay the tax shall he empowered to sand hia wife to one of the homes and rmme the advantages of celibacy, t^ape & so apparent reason why it shOTßld sot work.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7134, 26 June 1901, Page 2
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