Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1915 — Taxation of Bachelors. [ARTICLE]

Taxation of Bachelors.

Punishment, if not prohibition, of bachelorhood by taxation looms up every session in one or other of the 4 8 legislatures of these United States. New Jersey is the latest sovereign commonwealth to produce a states* man who is convinced that the social ills of the time will be alleviated, if not eradicated, by forcing every unmarried man of 30 and upward to pay a fine of SSO a year for the privilege of remaining single. Thus a bachelor would be classified with a corporation, which is taxed specially on account of the privileges allowed it by law. But a corporation acquires a certain important immunities in return for the taxation. One of them is legal protection against being disturbed in tho exercise of its privileges. Would a New Jersey bachelor of 30 or over, on payment of SSO a year be protected against assaults condition of single blessedness* by bright-eyed and alluring damsels with or without the aid of matchmaking mammas? Would the taxed bachelor be compelled to maintain hi® bachelorhood until he complied with some statutory method of surrendering his charter? He must be allowed something for his taxes.—Philadelphia Press. Every time the devil thinks of this war it gives him the shivers.