Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
by dragonwriter on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:50PM
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> What is the purpose of marriage benefits?
Largely, to:
(1) simplify life for people who want to do a fairly common thing, establishing a fairly comprehensive mutual support partnership, and
(2) encourage people to do that thing, and thereby reduce the chance of becoming a public burden.
> The second point of burden pertains mostly to giving tax breaks to married couples.
The "break" is mostly (roughly) treating married couples as if their combine income were earned equally split between the two, on the premise that the lower earning member of the couple is making sacrifices to enable the higher-earning member to earn their wage (for couples of roughly equal income, there is no tax break [1].)
Largely, to: (1) simplify life for people who want to do a fairly common thing, establishing a fairly comprehensive mutual support partnership, and (2) encourage people to do that thing, and thereby reduce the chance of becoming a public burden.
> The second point of burden pertains mostly to giving tax breaks to married couples.
The "break" is mostly (roughly) treating married couples as if their combine income were earned equally split between the two, on the premise that the lower earning member of the couple is making sacrifices to enable the higher-earning member to earn their wage (for couples of roughly equal income, there is no tax break [1].)
[1] And, potentially, its worse than just "no break": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty