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Oh What A Time...
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The History of the Bachelor Tax
In 1907, a member of the New Jersey legislature sought to introduce a beard tax into the state. The basic levy was a dollar a year but if your beard got too long and it was an extra $2 per inch,. If you grew a gote then that was a subject subject to a $10 charge. Bachelors in many states in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a costly experience. There's a tax for being single, for being a male and who is not with someone. In Argentina, the only way to escape pain, the bachelor tax introduced there in 1900 was to make a marriage proposal and I have it audibly rebuffed.
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