From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!allegra!honey Newsgroups: net.misc Title: marriage tax Article-I.D.: allegra.471 Posted: Thu Sep 16 22:30:03 1982 Received: Fri Sep 17 03:07:38 1982 this note is prompted by a digression in net.singles that no longer belongs there, as if anyone cares, in which one of the participants asserts that the marriage tax "is just the government expressing its opinion that women shouldn't work and its (sic) high time we removed these archaic notions from our government" (floyd!rjs). no, robert, it's just congress's way of ensuring that two shall live as cheaply as one. peter honeyman