Re: Marriage Penalty

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From: Ron Natalie
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:53

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Dragonfly wrote:
> 
> Marriage penalty?  How about just a break for single people.
> 
> Consider that in general, single people, or even married people with 1
> income, have to provide food, clothing, shelter and insuance with 1
> source of income, while a marriage with 2 wage-earners are actually
> taking jobs which singles or married people with only 1 income might
> badly need, just so they can afford a jet-ski and gas for an oversized,
> overpolluting SUV.
> 
DINKs are only a subset of married people.  If you think the exemption
for children goes anywhere near mitigating the cost of raising a kid you
are insane.

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