Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — PRUSSIA TO TAX BACHELORS [ARTICLE]

PRUSSIA TO TAX BACHELORS

All Getting $750 a Year Up Will Be Specially Assessed for Remaining Single. Berlin. —The Prussian diet Is now giving its formal official consideration to a project for taxing bachelors. The original bill has peen amended so as to make the tax Jeffectlve only In the case of unmarried men whose income exceeds s'(so a year. Such men will be called upon in case the bill passes to pay a tax of from ten to twenty per cent higher than married pien with corresponding incomes. The bachelor tax will take the form of an income sur tax. The Idea of the legislators who are backing tbe that men who have have to support wives or children ought not, in Justice, be compelled to pay as much toward the support of the state as men who are leading the carefree, irresponsible lives of bachelors. The project is fathered by the conservatives of the diet and has every prospect of becoming a law.