At this rate, why not mention those things?
Can you provide an example of a specific tax break that a married couple (the married couple being two people of course) gets that is not available to a single person?
For example the deduction per person for the 2015 taxable year was $6,300, for married filing jointly it's $12,600 (x2 for two people).
Deductions for dependent children of course don't matter because the same deduction is available whether you are single or married.
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How's that steady diet of government cheese working out for ya?
Singles should get the same tax treatment
The above was previously asked and you never did provide any examples.
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Nope I sure didn't, you're right
Yes, angry over the defeat in the supreme court, some republican politicians have gone into crazy mode.
Representative Steve King says:
"So I'm calling upon the states, just abolish civil marriage, let's go back to holy matrimony the way it began, do that alone,". "In the next few days I'll be introducing legislation to do just that."
So what do we think? In a nation that is getting less religious, he wants to abolish the right of people to have a civil marriage purely because he wants to stop gays from marrying.
Here are a few problems with what he proposes (IMHO)
1. how is this going to play with the supreme court by discriminating against non-religious people who would be unable to marry anymore due to this fool's possible proposal
2. and this is a biggie some priests do marry gays and lesbians in a holy matrimony!!!!!!!!!!. So his big plan to make gay marriage impossible is in fact achieving nothing. He is just making a total ass of himself.
3. the republican party does at some time want another president from their party in the white house because attitudes like this will not go down well with the voters (who are largely in favor of gay marriage).
Steve King also said: "It's not the will of the people to have same sex marriage, now there's no point in having civil marriage in this country whatsoever,".
He does have internet right? He does know that the opinion polls show that a big majority of Americans support gay marriage? Or is he just totally out of touch with reality?
But here is the question, do you agree with republican Steve King, civil marriage has to be abolished in the US in favor of holy matrimony only?
People who say "Where's the poll?" within the first 10 minutes of a poll thread being created should be permanently banned.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, that includes ANY religion, even if it acknowledges no Supreme Being. For Mr. King to have what he wants would require a constitutional convention. Then, perhaps, we might really discover what it is that the sovereign American people actually do want
Why? It was a CIVIL question.
There ya go.
Tell me how a strong modern woman can sit here and say that women need men to pay them an allowance. If we're truly equal then a woman can work as easily as a man can. If she chooses not to or would rather stay home, then that's her choice, but have some pride and take ownership of that choice
Who said it had to be a woman who was the one to stay home, sacrificing good job experience so that someone was there to watch the children, take care of the house, while someone else worked to provide money for the family? Either spouse can get alimony. And either person would be sacrificing provable workforce experience, possibly an education in order to take care of the children, the household.
The whole system was set up to baby women. Like child support laws it was only extended to shut men up. Of course, plenty of men are still opposed to both and want them to end.
It is still equal between men and women.
In the past, women could not hold most jobs and was expected to stay home and care for the children and her husband, so if a man left her, she was trapped working a limited number of professions, especially if she had no higher education or training. Women were getting screwed. Now that men are actually staying home as the homemakers and primarey caregivers of children as well, then alimony should apply in those situations too.
Alimony should end. You should not be paid because you made a bad decision that you will pay for in the future. If men want to join "the don't work and screw my life over" club they can, but the system to support them needs to end.
well, as we've basically given up promoting nuclear families as benefiting society, the government might as well give up the whole marriage thing.
The decision is usually a joint decision, and not a "bad" decision at that time. It will likely become so scarce that it shouldn't matter, but it is stupid to claim that it is a bad decision on one person's side to stay home to take care of the kids, other spouse, but if the other spouse leaves and has to pay for that decision (that was likely jointly made) then they didn't also make a bad decision.
Prove it in court. It is a bad decision to stay at home and not work and it's proven by your own argument of women needing help because of the decision. If it was a wise decision they wouldn't have screwed their life over to the point where they need to pull the man along with them even after their marriage is over.
That is what is done. It is simply proven in court that they made the decision that one would stay home and care for the home and children, while the other worked for the money for the family. That decision then causes one to be at a disadvantage in the work market later if the marriage ends.
How do you prove that the man agreed to the woman staying at home? If the man says he did not, exactly what do you have to say he did? Her word? I can't see how you have anything else.
If he stayed with her, despite her not having a job, then he would have to show that he didn't agree to the decision, and that she wasn't making any sacrifices in doing what she did. Why stay with her if you don't think it is okay for her to stay home with the children, caring for the house?
So the man is supposed to get a divorce or something when she decides to stay at home if he doesn't agree? That is a reasonable standard to you? I don't see how the woman staying at home is grounds to divorce her. lol.
If he would rather she not stay home, then why would he stay with her if she was not going to agree to such a big decision? Did they not discuss this stuff prior to getting married?
I don't think this is something most people would consider grounds for divorce. It seems a bit fast to the trigger to call it grounds for divorce, imho.
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