Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1927 — Page 11

APRIL 8, 1927

BACHELOR’S TAX DISAPPROVED IN , NATION’S CAPITAL Members of Congress and Others Consider Various Phases. Times Wnghlnnton Hurrau. /■'-.? Vi :ui York Aiiimr WASHINGTON, April B.—Should bachelors be taxed? Are they slackers in their duty to the State? Mussolini isn't the only one who answers “yes” to these questions. Connecticut, Florida, Indiana and North Carolina all have had bills Introduced along this line. North Carolina's bill would pay the money so collected to worthy spinsters in the State. Florida would tax the spinsters the same as the bachelors. Only a few Representatives and Senators could be found in Washington who would allow themselves to be quoted on a bachelor’s tax. Said Senator As hurst of Arizona: “Don’t ask me a question like that. I’ll tell you a story. When I first went into politics I resolved never to dance. If I danced well, no man would vote for me. If I was a dub on the dance floor, no woman would consider me worth her vote. Spinsters’ Reply “It’s obvious that such a tax could nev v rr be applied to spinsters. They would probably be willing to say, for financial reasons, that no one ever asked them. “But many merf cannot marry. Some of the best, most, high-minded men in the world simply cannot make money, and never in the world would be able to support wives. "We would have to proceed carefully in prying into personal rights and liberties such as these. If a bachelor's tax were imposed, it would likely be fought on grounds of unconstitutionality.” “But bachelors and spinsters are already taxed, are they not, through the differences in the way the income tax exemptions are made up?” it was suggested. Taxed in Way Now “Certainly they are, and isn’t that all right? A single man without dependents—shouldn't he be given fewer exemptions than a married man?” “Ah,’ then you do believe in a bachelor’s tax!” “Oh, no, that is different.” Judge Kathryn Sellers of the District of Columbia Juvenile Court, who sees thousands of domestic squabblers in the course of a year, things the idea of a bachelor’s tax is silly. “It's going at taxation in the wrong way,” she says. “We tax because of a need for money to apply to a certain public need. Is it for education of children that a bachelor's tax would h© imposed?" Since he has not given of his time and money to raising his own children? Then, what about the thousands of married couples who have no children” “Few bachelors or spinsters are in that, marital state because of principle. Theyr's not staying unmarried because they don’t believe in marriage. “A bachelor doesn’t marry because he hasn't been able to get the woman he wanted, or because he hasn’t been able to afford It, or for various other reasons which are his own business.” SCARED WOMAN DIES Frightened by Cat, She Swallowed Fish Bone and Choked. v LONDON, April 8. —A cat and a fish recently were the cause of an accidental death here. Startled when her cat leaped on the table while she was eating fish, Mrs. Mary Teale swallowed a bone which lodged in her lung. She died before a physician arrived. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.

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