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RE: Why not abolish marriage certificates for everyone?
March 1, 2014 at 2:13 pm
Most people shouldn't need tax cuts of any kind, because the rate of personal taxation should be directly in proportion to annually-declared income and assets.
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RE: Why not abolish marriage certificates for everyone?
March 1, 2014 at 3:13 pm
There is one over-riding problem with the US tax system - I won't attempt to speak for anywhere else - but I do have some up close and personal experience with our own.
It began as an attempt to fund the government. It has instead been used for every form of tinkering/manipulation/patronage imaginable.
I recall one senator commenting years ago that he was amazed that we ever got anyone to move west without offering tax breaks.
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RE: Why not abolish marriage certificates for everyone?
March 2, 2014 at 1:10 am
Rituals guide us into social channels. The marriage ritual ends certain expectations, creates certain others. It's a role being adopted, and while homosexual partners should be allowed equal participation, there is nothing wrong with having ritualistic roles geared toward having children, and protecting those who do.
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RE: Why not abolish marriage certificates for everyone?
March 2, 2014 at 1:59 am
(March 2, 2014 at 1:10 am)rasetsu Wrote: there is nothing wrong with having ritualistic roles geared toward having children, and protecting those who do.
Do married people with kids get more tax benefits than single people with kids? (Honestly asking, I'm single with no kids so I don't know what benefits married people or people with kids get) If the point is to protect and support people who have kids than there should be no difference between the tax breaks a married couple with kids receives and the tax breaks a single parent receives and there should be no tax benefit simply for signing a piece of paper.
As for tax breaks simply for getting married, from my totally unbiased vantage point as a single person
, that is totally crap. Why should I pay more taxes because through, choice or circumstance, I am unmarried? Everyone who earns a taxable income should be taxed individually. Just my opinion.
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