RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 25, 2015 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 12:35 pm by das_atheist.)
(June 25, 2015 at 9:32 am)Pyrrho Wrote:(June 25, 2015 at 2:08 am)robvalue Wrote: I agree that married people should be taxed the same as non married. There should be no financial reward or motivation. It's ridiculous, in my opinion. And there is a lot of legal tangle, sure. I don't know to what degree you're allowed to fiddle with the specifics.
In the U.S., whether marriage affects taxes, and how much, depends on many other factors. If one makes substantially more money than the other, then marriage gives a tax break. But not if they earn the same. Then it can actually cost extra. Of course, different states have different taxes, and even different counties within states can have different taxes, so the situation is really a good deal more complicated.
So it sounds like the way the marriage taxes are setup encourage one person to work and one person to stay at home.
