In Ancient Rome they had a bachelor tax that was levied on unmarried men who presumably weren’t raising up a new generation of Roman citizens. I’ve been thinking about how that might work today.

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There have been threads recently arguing that men are not entitled to sex and that women are not entitled to romance. Both propositions are true. However, one is left with the collective cost imposed on society by a large number of individual choices. For example, society foots the bill for the costs of smoking, por diet, and lack of exercise in the form of higher medical bills. Occasionally nanny state Governors issue edicts againt big gulp soft drinks or seek to collect taxes on such to the anger and annoyance of conservatives and fee market types. We do in fact collect taxes on alcohol and tobacco in part to defray the costs their use imposes.

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Now as the matter presently stands, women are postponing marriage into their late twenties and even thirties, in part to indulge their hypergamy. The result of this is that they share a limited number of men they find desirable, leaving large numbers of men celibate. Society runs on male investment. The result is large numbers of uninvested men who do not generate the surplus resources society needs because they cannot get access to women. In addition, these women produce no children, imposing additional costs on society down the road. (The women will be a tax burden in their old age as their cats will be unable to support them)

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The point is that while women are under no obligation to provide any given man with sex or a relationship, the women do in fact impose a serious cost to society by slutting their way through their twenties. Therefore, it would be in society’s interest to levy a tax on women who remain unmarried beyond a certain age to defray the costs they impose on all of us.

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We could call it a bachelorette tax, which sounds a bit better than a spinster tax or a hoe tax. The cost could be say, 2% of her after tax income. The tax could kick in a 23. Widows, members of religious orders, and divorcees with children would be exempted.

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Note: Before reddit sends me another message offering help with mental health issues I don’t have (At least not to any large degree) I should point out that this is intended to be a theoretical discussion to see what counter arguments people will make