Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Marriage penalty Message-ID: <1405@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:56:42 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1405 Posted: Fri Mar 1 10:56:42 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:19:31 EST References: <501@homxb.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 29 [ This is cross-posted from net.flame... ] From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) >Let's put the question another way: > >Why should two people living together without the >formality of marriage pay less taxes than a formally >married couple? > >Whether the question is put this way, or the way it >was phrased in previous questions, it is not always true. >If two people are living together, not married, >but one earns all the income, then they would pay >more taxes than if they were married! > >Can anyone suggest a solution which would not have any >inequities. No taxation at all. Charge user fees instead. >Herman Silbiger -- The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer. Ken Montgomery "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs" ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]