TAXING BACHELORS
(To the Editor.)
'i JS'—J° rf ffrence to a "tax on bachelors, etc., lately levied in France and noted in your columns recently: I have long thought that the levy of such a tax m New Zealand, to help pay for our Social Security benefits, would not be inequitable. Most of us believe in equal pay for equal service, and would not advocate that bachelors be paid less than married men; but I think it would not be unjust that they should pay a little more to the State than the man who carries the family burden— pleasureable though it may be. Even though some bachelors are not blameworthy,, the equity of the principle is not affected. They are not carrying their share of the load. This allusion is perhaps as much applicable to the childless couple as to the bachelor —I am. etc.,
PATERFAMILIAS.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 8
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