Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-02
Tax on Unmarried.
Higher Rates for Them Than
Heads Of Families Favored.
70 the Eaitor Of The Star:

TO the Editor Of The STAR
Have our legislators ever considered
at what period in life II is easier TOT
those who earn less than $2,UUV
wear to nay taxes? At the present
time taxation rests teo heavily on the
already burdened shoulders OF our
family men and women. meanwhile
at the same time many prenigate
single men and women, and married
childless people, whom the state ana
Federal Governments have educated
free and who enjoy all the rights
and protection of our government
pay hardly any taxes.
Thev earn from 5000 q year up
ward and except for a lowering
scale of income TAX they ere not reach
Cd nv taxation. Their entire earn
ings are frittered away on themselves
and for luxuries. Many do not even,
ont OF gratitude, aid struggling rela-
tives in return for help they have re-
ceived. Many young people in poor
homes, though no longer minors,
evade even paying their board. They
Law nothing aside for future home.
Then comes marriage--the state of
self sacrifice. Those who have become
mercenary-minded terminate this state
through the divorce court. Many,
once tasting an easy life, are averse
to entering into the life of worry.
mainly financial, which marriage
brings. Why sacrifice financially for
q whole year or more just to pay the
expenses Of bringing a new American
into the world? Therefore the fami-
lies of Americans become smaller.
One wonders why we are not edu.
Gated up to realize that we should
meet the heavier burden of taxation
during our years of single blessed.
ness. We would not feel taxation
nearly as much during the years when
we fritter our cash away as we would
during the first sacrificing years of
married life. State governments by
reducing proportionately, on a set
scale taxation on the homesteads OF
families with growing children, ac-
cording to the number Of children the
family had under Is years OF age,
would thereby put premium on par
enthood.
Heavier road taxes should be
levied on those who have time to wear
out the roads than on those who have
to spend their time earning enough to
feed. house and clothe gang OF
Young Americans, and who are at the
same time trying to own little piece
of land or a home.
More of the school tax could be paid
by all before marriage. Speakers al
the graduation exercises of schools
and universities could present to our
youth the issue: Now your govern
ment has educated you. Therefore, II
expects you. before the burdens OF
married life come upon you, to pay
school tax out of your early earnings.
When you become parents and hap
pen not yet to have arrived finan-
ciaIly, the Government will reduce
pro rata your taxation for school pur-
poses, in order to aid you in meeting
your then higher family expenses"
Let us endeavor, as Nation, to
keep the low-salaried fathers and
mothers younger. their faces less
lined with worry. their shoulders less
stopped. by making taxation easier
during the difficult years of service
when a young family is being reared.
Let US have heavier taxation placed
on us as citizens as a whole during
our earlier, free-lance and less burden
ed years, If this Is possible.
F. NJ. DAVIDSON.