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In response to "Well, there's your battle line drawn: Ed Gillespie - Romney believes in constitutional ban on SSM -- (link)" by Reagen

Let's just eliminate marriage as an institution of the state, tax everyone equally with no discounts ... -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) May 10 '12, 11:19

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it's funny because from a tax perspective the joint filers are the ones that get screwed - stewie May 10, 11:23 6
- (in your country :) heheh -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 11:32
- Had I filed married but separate this year I would have lost money. - Inigo May 10, 11:27
- They have the option of filing seperately. What are they, choosing to get screwed? Unmarrieds don't have the option to file jointly. -- nm - mara May 10, 11:25 3
  - it's not that simple... child tax credit disappears, you still get hosed on the Roth IRA, also community property states make it worse -- nm - stewie May 10, 11:31 2
    - The bottom line is, file the way that's better. If the other choice isn't better, they're not being screwed. -- nm - mara May 10, 11:33 1
      - single and joint but separate are not the same thing, when you get married you get two new options that in most cases are both worse than single - stewie May 10, 11:39
While I agree to this, there are a lot of non-tax benefits to marriage too (hospital visits, etc.) -- nm - MDH May 10, 11:21 2
- ... and those should all be available to anyone who wants them -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 11:33 1
  - Romney even agrees on that. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 10, 11:36
[like] -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 10, 11:20 2
- Try to get this logic past defenders of marriage. - Mitt Romney May 10, 11:24 1
  - SFAN. -- nm - Will Hunting May 10, 11:24

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