Comments by "Joe Swanson" (@joeswanson733) on "" video.
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i'm sure they're loop holes and at the same time i 'm sure it's easily defeated in court. they tried bachelors taxes in this country before. it's the same song and dance
By 1821, the state of Missouri applied a $1 tax on all unmarried men.[12]
The state of Michigan had made repeated attempts to instantiate a bachelor tax. In 1837, state senator Edward D. Ellis attempted to pass such a bill, but the measure failed. In 1848, a petition made it to a House committee, but did not reach the floor. In 1849, another proposal was made in a House committee that did not reach the floor. Again in 1850, another petition reached the House, but did not find a sponsor. During the Civil War it was proposed again, this time as a revenue measure as opposed to a public welfare measure, but again failed to reach the floor. It was then repeatedly brought up in 1897, 1901, 1911, 1919, with the first resulting in counter proposals for a similar tax to be applied to women who reject marriage proposals and the final resulting in arguments that bachelors had a statistically higher rate of delinquency as opposed to other groups. The final proposed bill that also made the floor of the Michigan Congress was in 1935 before it too failed due to economic considerations of the time.[2]
On February 12, 1898, Assemblyman Waller of the New Jersey State Legislature proposed a bachelor tax as a sumptuary tax; however, the bill was not passed.[3]
In 1921, the state of Montana applied a $3 tax on all bachelors in the state.[13] One of them, William Atzinger, refused to pay on sex discrimination grounds.[14] On January 11, 1922, the state supreme court struck down the “bachelor tax” and another poll tax applicable only to men.[15][16] However, it was done so on the grounds that the Montanan constitution of 1889 did not grant the legislature the power to tax individual persons; and attempts to define it as a policing measure for matters of public health as opposed to a revenue measure were found invalid (and the decision did not reference Atzinger's arguments against the tax on grounds of sex discrimination).[13]
In the state of California in 1934, as a response to the low 1933 birth rate in California, minister of Finance Roland Vandegrift proposed a $5 to $25 bachelor tax, but the measure did not succeed.[17]
Wyoming briefly considered a $2.50 bachelor tax in 1890, but the motion was tabled.[18]
all i can say is if you can win a sex discrimination case back in 1922 today would be a cake walk.
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