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One thing thst the marriage equality struggle has brought out into the open is the disparity between the benefits that single and married people receive. Leaving all of the other tangible benefits aside like child adoption, survivorship, inheritance, testifying against spouse, etc, why should taxpayer dollars be funneled to married couples? Everyone knows about the so-called "marriage penalty" where married couples pay equal to or more than a single taxpayer. But what about the couples with one non-working spouse? Why should there be a separate 1040 tax table for them with tax dollar amounts much less than that of a single taxpayer? I would argue that those are oftentimes those well off couples that most enjoy that perk. Why shouldn't we have one set of tax structure for all taxpayers regardless of spousal influence? Why shouldn't single people be able to name a Socisl Security beneficiary in case of premature death? In a couple's situation, the death benefits flow to the surviving spouse and dependent a under 18- a windfall for them. The single receives Zero for all of those years of paying into that crooked SS system. How is that fair?
I would also argue that the distribution of all these advantages is a direct contradiction to those social conservatives who decry that they want the Government to get out of the marriage business. Would they want to give up their privilege too??
I'm not a conservative and definitely not a liberal. But I think when people marry with a license, they lose whatever benefits they had prior to marriage. Which is a good reason to get the government out of marriage.
I'm not a conservative and definitely not a liberal. But I think when people marry with a license, they lose whatever benefits they had prior to marriage. Which is a good reason to get the government out of marriage.
I am in favor of removing spousal and survivor SS benefits unless the spouse was a stay at home mother and was therefore unable to earn her own Social Security benefits. There is no other justification for such benefits.
I am in favor of removing spousal and survivor SS benefits unless the spouse was a stay at home mother and was therefore unable to earn her own Social Security benefits. There is no other justification for such benefits.
I am in favor of removing spousal and survivor SS benefits unless the spouse was a stay at home mother and was therefore unable to earn her own Social Security benefits. There is no other justification for such benefits.
How about the protections for inheritance or property taxation? Why when it comes to same sex marriage, striaght people are then willing to lose those 1049 rights, benefits and protections? All other times they take them for granted.
Like if a person is receiving unemployed benefits. Or if a person marries another with bad finances, then the finances merge. Then her financial problems become his problems.
I am in favor of removing spousal and survivor SS benefits unless the spouse was a stay at home mother and was therefore unable to earn her own Social Security benefits. There is no other justification for such benefits.
Why did the mother stay at home in the first place? Many mothers work and mother their kids. Why not tax their working spouse at a higher rate to accommodate the additional actuarial expense of providing for his/her survivors? Or at least allow EVERY taxpayer to designate a beneficiary in case of early death. Our system picks way too many winners and losers.
LOL, then you'll have a lot of commonlaw marriages and people intentionally staying single to reap additional benefits.
Then we can be more like Europe. As someone who was raised and has family there...no thank you.
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