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I came up with the idea while through some of the frustrations that I ran into during my day job. A common use-case that I go through on almost a daily basis is:

1) Collect a bunch of excel and csv files from different sources / people

2) Merge those files into a single excel file so that I can join the data to make something useful

3) Create pivot tables and graphs using that data

4) Copy paste those figures into a word doc

5) Email it out to a bunch of people

Sometimes, if Step #2 is really complicated, I end up writing a quick python script to upload all of those into a temporary MySQL database, do the query, and then export as a csv file, GOTO #3.

This also becomes more annoying when I have to make some changes to the data, which now requires me to repeat the whole process again. PasteQL is the first stab at making this a little bit more sane.

PasteQL is a side project that I just finished, please let me know what you think. Also: this is the first side project that I've ever launched, so I'm a little lost as to how to solicit feedback and actually market it, so if you have any tips/advice, I'd love to hear!

Haha, my wife and I are having the same conversation right now. It's insane that this kind of conversation even exists in the first place! Looking at a visual that I found on NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/16/upshot/marriag...), it seems like at the high end it kicks in at ~180k, but it seems to also exists at the very low end as well ~35k.

Ohh wow that's a crazy situation. We don't have any children yet but it's good to know.

As for whether or not this petition will make a different, it likely won't, but regardless it'll still have a larger impact than simply ignoring it.

You can still file separately, but the brackets for singles and married filing separately are different. The brackets for married filing separate is effectively the brackets for married filing jointly except split in half. At lower levels it's the same, but once you get to the higher ends of the 25% and beyond they start to diverge: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-brackets.aspx

Long term lurker on hacker news. My wife and I got married last year and this will be our first time filing our taxes jointly. At the beginning of the year, we naively changed our W-2 withholdings to married and ended up with a massive tax bill at the end of the year. Little did we know, choosing married on your W-2 results in less taxes being withheld because it assumes that you're a single income family, whereas in reality our taxes actually went up. Seeing this number triggered me to dig a little deeper into the tax code and saw how unfair this was. How many of you guys are dual-career couples who were impacted by this quirk as well?