TY - ABST T1 - No Rates and Taxes; A Romance of Five Worlds Y1 - 1902 A1 - Thomas [Andrew] Pinkerton (1850-1914) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Satire. Proposes that a city should own the land on which it is built, with rents paid to the city providing support for the poor and other public expenses. All the rich moved to where there were no rates or taxes and took to petty theft. Men have degenerated and women are dominant. Science had made muscles unnecessary. Three year marriage contracts. Live for the present--The ". . . chief aim of female government was jubilation, cheerfulness, joyousness" (82).

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. U5 -

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