A TAX ON BACHELORS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] fear that I did not make my letter clear enough. I was "it referring to a tax on bachelors at all, but to the suggestion
either approved by, or originating with, the Spectator (I forget which) that childless married couples should be discriminated against by taxation in favour of those more happily placed in this respect. I am not a bachelor, so Miss Fisher's reproach is undeserved. May I be permitted to assure her that my views are entirely one with those she holds ? I have . always upheld the opposition against a tax on bachelors, and my arguments have necessarily included the unmarried of the other sex. By the way, what would be the position of parents left childless by the war ? Would they be taxed by a grateful country too !—I am, Sir, Sic., LEVER DE RIDEAU.
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