People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — The Suffered tax on Bachelors. [ARTICLE]

The Suffered tax on Bachelors.

Chicago Record. The only reason why a bachelor should be taxed any more than a married man would be that a bachelor is in some way undesirable—like a grog shop—and deserves to be frowned upon by the authority of law. His singleness, which may be but the determination to refrain from the matrimonial mistakes of his neighbors, would be punished. Supposing him to have made many earnest efforts to get married and to have been refused all around, he would still have to pay £lO a year for continuing in a state he did not choose. It is patent that the bachelor tax will have the support of none but women, and a few envious men. Most of the men in Congress are husbands, but they will not forget themselves so far as to tamper with the feelings of 6,000,000 able-bodied, ballot-casting bachelors.

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