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Re:Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo by lalaland1125 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:45AM (#46290785)
What unjust "advantages" do you think childless couples get that you would want to get rid?

Pretty much all of the legal benefits of marriage are contractual, not financial, and come at no cost to the public.

Things like spousal medical rights, a joint estate, etc don't come at the expense of anybody else.

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Re:Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo by SoftTalker on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:27PM (#46291348)
Taxes would be a big one. There are substantial tax benefits to being married.
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Re:Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo by lalaland1125 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:47PM (#46291659)
The tax benefits are sorta oversold.

The main benefits are tax free gifts between partners and filing jointly, both of which seem very reasonable and wouldn't be of value to single people.

The actual tax breaks most people think about are tied to dependents in your household, not marriage.

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Re:Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo by lotsofpulp on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:00AM (#46299021)
No, there aren’t. In fact, there was a tax penalty for being married until 2017 TCJA.
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