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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Perhaps your underestimating the impact. Your paying medical insurance at an higher rate to help subsidies a marriage partner and any children they have. I would imagine you are paying about a third more than you would if those considerations didn't exist. Any retirement plan your company might have would also have those inflated premiums. Taxes probably cost you a couple extra thousand than it would if you didn't have the benefit. More if you figure the spousal benefits paid by our government to it's employees and vets.
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I don't pay for medical insurance. I live in Canada.
I don't have any benefit that saves me a couple thousand a year. I'm not married.
I don't have the figures in front of me but I'm absolutely positive that marriage benefits don't increase my taxes in any serious way. I'm not "pro-marriage benefits", I'm "pro-equality".
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Your losing all this money and don't even see a reason that this special group gets these benefits. What makes your position even more ironic is that you are here defending another groups right to belly up to the same trough. Right?
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You set that one up to knock down for yourself. Nice try. It would be ironic if I was griping about paying the bills for straight people to be married, but since I'm not this is just a hamfisted attempt to make me look like a hypocrite.
Just for interests sake, what exactly are the benefits? We've been gabbing about this all day but nobody has actually said what all the wonderful financial benefits of being married are.
I'd also love to hear what the financial benefits of having children are.