NO BACHELOR TAX
"Would the Labour Party favour a tax on all bachelors over the age of twenty-five?" asked a questioner of Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., at his Moera meeting last night. Mr. Holland replied that the Labour Party would not tax any pan on account of his condition in life, whether married or single. It would tax them according to their wealth, Butting £he burdena on
the shoulders that could best bear them. The Labour Party would improve social and economic conditions so that every man worthy of. being married would get married. (Applause.) It would not force any man to marry. That might not be fair to the woman. (Laughter and applause.) South Australia had taxed bachelors and spinsters too. He thought that the tax on bachelors was still in force; but, before tho first election after the tax was imposed on spinsters, the politicians got frightened and abolished the tax on spinsters, "the female of the species" being, as Eudyard Kipling had said, "more deadly than the male " (Laughter and applause.)
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 15
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175NO BACHELOR TAX Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 15
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