🚀 go-pugleaf

How true.

It is simply incredulous that single taxpayers still bear the bulk of the
burden to pay for the services afforded the children of married taxpayers,
who take a DEDUCTION for those -same- children.

Now, WHO is in the -truly- unfair position?

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On Wed, 02 May 2001 00:05:02 GMT, "mapanari"
<mapanari.cutthisout@austin.rr.com> wrote:

>Yes, but the reason why we have the marriage penalty is because for so many
>years the IRS screwed single people and the IRS laws were changed to reflect
>that.
>
>Over the years under the democrat's raising of taxes and getting rid of
>exemptions and no bracketing for inflation or deflation, the marriage
>penalty that used to even is now uneven.
>
>What is *not* needed is another stupid tweak to an immense 500 pound gorilla
>set of laws and exemptions; what is needed is a simple directive that says,
>"If you make X amount of money, you pay X amount of taxes.  And it doens't
>matter if you're single, double, gay, ball less or had a masectomy, you pay
>your fair share of taxes based upon how much you make.
>
>As it stands now under the democrat's ideas, they want to go back to the old
>standard and even worse, of screwing the single people.
>
>Thirty years from now the single people will finally get relief from
>congress for all the unfair tax breaks married people get, and then thirty
>years after that the marrieds will be screaming about all the unfairness of
>it all.  And so it goes.
>
>
>mapi
>
>"Henry" <Hgrover@aol.com> wrote in message news:3AEE1E86.6C2829B8@aol.com...
>> Okay,
>> Bush Cheney.....lets get rid of the illegal marriage penalty from the
>> IRS.
>>
>> Henry
>>
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