I.R.S. to Recognize All Gay Marriages, Regardless of State

[KCFlyer]

I miss your point xUT?

All any couple has to do is get married. Nothing at all changed for them. The only thing that changed is that a same sex couple that gets married, or has been legally married, gets the same tax status as an opposite sex couple.

Maybe I am missing something.

YOu are missing the conservative talking point of the "marriage penalty". I would invite those heterosexual married couples to live for a year with taxes being withheld at "married" rates get divorced on December 30 and file taxes in their marital status as of 1/1/2014. Then get back to me about that "penalty' thing.

 

[Kev3188]

You didn't answer my question.
I don't have a problem with 'equality'.
But is this law 'equal'?
Luv U Man!
B) xUT

In the aggregate, yes, IMO.

 

[Ms Tree]

Ask tree, we had this discussion years ago.

I dont remember what was said. I dont think you are making sense right now either

 

[xUT]

Look up the domestic partner act.
Doesn't apply to opposite sex couples.
B) xUT

 

[Ifly2]

Someone is being obtuse

I guess if you want real tax "equality", let everyone pay their own taxes on their own income, and eliminate the single/married/head of household/married filing separately rates.

While you are at it, eliminate all the deductions and credits and the rest. All of them. Mortgages, student loans, health insurance, etc., all of them.

They are all instruments of social engineering.

Most folks actually support that aspect of socialism, at least the parts that they use.

Still... If all married couples are treated the same, and all unmarried couples are treated the same, as to filing status, how is any inequality an issue of gender or same sex/ opposite sex?

It seems the inequality is between single and married, regardless of whether they are of the same, or opposite sex.

Xut, when no one gets what you are saying, it is not them.

 

[Ifly2]

The domestic partner act is basically a band aid.

If same sex couples were able to get married, in all states, and all states recognized their marriages, then the domestic partner act would cease to have a reason for being, would never have been proposed or passed.

If that ever occurs, then it should and almost certainly would be rescinded.

Until then, the people fighting to,prevent same sex couples from enjoying the same legal ststus as their opposite sex counterparts are creating this "inequality" for their fellow opposite sex, but unmarried, couples.

Difference is, of course, that All of those opposite sex couples can remedy the inequity on their own, in all 50 states and the territories. Same sex couples do not all have that remedy available to them.

Hence, the Band Aid

Why not just heal the wounds?

 

[Ms Tree]

Look up the domestic partner act.
Doesn't apply to opposite sex couples.
B) xUT

Of course it doesnt. They can get married.

 

[xUT]

Someone is being obtuse

I guess if you want real tax "equality", let everyone pay their own taxes on their own income, and eliminate the single/married/head of household/married filing separately rates.

While you are at it, eliminate all the deductions and credits and the rest. All of them. Mortgages, student loans, health insurance, etc., all of them.

They are all instruments of social engineering.

Most folks actually support that aspect of socialism, at least the parts that they use.

Still... If all married couples are treated the same, and all unmarried couples are treated the same, as to filing status, how is any inequality an issue of gender or same sex/ opposite sex?

It seems the inequality is between single and married, regardless of whether they are of the same, or opposite sex.

Xut, when no one gets what you are saying, it is not them.

Thanks for the laugh....
You almost hurt my feelings...
Word for today sweetums.... obfuscate
LOL
B) xUT

 

[xUT]

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[Ms Tree]

Look up the domestic partner act.
Doesn't apply to opposite sex couples.
B) xUT

So lets put up a ballot that allows people to choose one or the other. Everyone can be a domestic partner or they can be married. Which one do you think would win?

No, the current law is most definitly not equal but since all 50 states do not allow same sex marriages the domestic partner is as close as the law allows at the time.

The easist fix as pointed out above is to allow marriage in all 50 states between anyone who wants to marry and strike down any domestic partner laws.

 

[xUT]

So lets put up a ballot that allows people to choose one or the other. Everyone can be a domestic partner or they can be married. Which one do you think would win?

No, the current law is most definitly not equal but since all 50 states do not allow same sex marriages the domestic partner is as close as the law allows at the time.

The easist fix as pointed out above is to allow marriage in all 50 states between anyone who wants to marry and strike down any domestic partner laws.

Their address or the location of their wedding does not matter, as long as the marriage is legal: a same-sex couple who marry in Albany, N.Y., and move to Alabama are treated the same as a same-sex couple who marry and live in Massachusetts.

They can under this decision.
This pretty much supersedes "ANY" states decision.

Of course, they would have to get married in one of the states that is legal, but if your serious about your commitment, what's the issue?

The fed just superseded states rights.

 

[Ifly2]

Didn't do a thing to states' rights

This is for federal tax returns

Not a thing to do with state tax returns, or a state recognizing same sex marriage, or anything else

 

[signals]

Looks like one more domino has fallen and we are one step closer to equal marriage rights for everyone.



Well Scalia, here is your answer.



NY Times

Since you find this as a good thing-btw, I couldn't care less about gay marriage as long as it is held in the realm of Caesar, or the government in your terms-of course the IRS would support it, because married couples pay more taxes in the long run

 

[signals]

Are you really that obtuse? Or just trying to be funny...
Because 'funny' is not working for you... LOL
B) xUT

Yep, she is that obtuse!

 

[delldude]

So lets put up a ballot that allows people to choose one or the other. Everyone can be a domestic partner or they can be married. Which one do you think would win?

With gays making some 5-10% of the population and outnumbered by the Christians.....Duh