Bachelor taxes aren’t heard of much these days, but they were trendy for a time. Bachelors as a class didn’t have much of an organized lobby to fight against such taxes with… or did they:
The Bachelor Tax.
Roman Catholic Priests’ Objection.
Sydney, . A meeting of the Roman Catholics of the diocese of Maitland protested against the taxing of priests and brothers of the church under the Federal taxation proposals. Dr. Dwyer, Bishop of Maitland, said that he personally would not pay the bachelor tax. He would, he said, adopt an attitude of passive resistance, and he thought all the priests of the diocese would do the same.
[Mr. Hughes has stated that if conscription is carried on , the bachelor tax will almost certainly be repealed as a natural consequence.]
Can someone explain to me why the abolition of a bachelor tax would be the natural consequence of conscription? Maybe because conscription overwhelmingly burdened bachelors it was seen as demanding too much.
