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[bzarcher]

Why should gays be left out of the tax breaks?

I refer to my earlier statements that you don't need a law to get married unless you care about the secular benefits. If you want to get married, all you need is your partner and a willing priest. Bam, 20 minutes later you're married. This issue is not about marraige. It's about insurance and tax benefits. Important? Sure, to many. And I agree it's a 'right' they probably should have if straight marraiges have it. But let's be honest, mmkay? If (like the major example), you lived 50 years with the same man or woman, you didn't need a piece of paper to tell you that you're married.

In other news, out of bed, and the music finished loading. Whee. I hate having to work on federal holidays.

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[daddy-tank.livejournal.com]

...speaking as a married person, I get taxed -more- because I'm married. Sorry kids, there's no breaks here. If Ida and I filed seperatedly, we'd get more back than we do filing jointly -- there's just too much paperwork in divying up the kids, home, and cars in order to go through seperate filings. Hence, we file jointly.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes, but if the Federal revisions to tax code clear as expected, the marraige penalties will be removed and benefits installed. So yes, it hurts for now, but it will be changing.

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[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a married person, my wife and I collected more than we would had we filed separately.

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[daddy-tank.livejournal.com]

Your case is simple tax economics -- having withheld at the single rate until you were married -- and even discounting switching to the married rate once you were married, for this year, having withheld at the higher single rate, you get the break. It's usually what one spouse in a marriage does on their W2 anyway, because withholding at the single rate allows more money to be taken out, but you get money back come tax time. Right now it's really the only way to get money back out of the system.

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[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your simple answer to my experience.