This is regressive, and prevents MEN of modest means having families. The better heeled can brush it off.
I think you need to re read my comment. If you are the sole breadwinner there is no marriage penalty.
If you both make money then combined income would need to be more than $160,000 per year to be hit with the penalty. I think that is way more than "modest means"
If you are a family of modest means you are not getting hit with a marriage penalty. What do you consider modest means?
Welllllll ... If they both make $85k or something they will be hit. This is exactly the experienced machinist, and the slightly senior nurse, who we NEED TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND WHO AREN'T. OR NOT ENOUGH.
So yes. This slightly middle or experienced, not lowest, vaguely middle class but not wealthy, people, whose house is in the mid 100s if they have one at all, that is who we do NOT need to hit with any taxes that discourage marriage and childbearing.
To me, it you have kids, and you are not on government assistance, well, you are the nation's Star. You deserve a pat, a pet, applause, and being financially spared.
Why? Because you are producing a Good for the national future. To me, you have ALREADY PAID your taxes in diapers, baby clothes, and above all that, famous money-equivalent, TIME.
$900 a year is a LOT of money.
This is regressive, and prevents MEN of modest means having families. The better heeled can brush it off.
But wealthy men don't make up for the infertility of the lower down. A guy who makes three times more, does NOT have three times as many children.
Everybody has to have children.
Nine hundred dollars is quite a large sum for many.
I think you need to re read my comment. If you are the sole breadwinner there is no marriage penalty.
If you both make money then combined income would need to be more than $160,000 per year to be hit with the penalty. I think that is way more than "modest means"
If you are a family of modest means you are not getting hit with a marriage penalty. What do you consider modest means?
Welllllll ... If they both make $85k or something they will be hit. This is exactly the experienced machinist, and the slightly senior nurse, who we NEED TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND WHO AREN'T. OR NOT ENOUGH.
So yes. This slightly middle or experienced, not lowest, vaguely middle class but not wealthy, people, whose house is in the mid 100s if they have one at all, that is who we do NOT need to hit with any taxes that discourage marriage and childbearing.
To me, it you have kids, and you are not on government assistance, well, you are the nation's Star. You deserve a pat, a pet, applause, and being financially spared.
Why? Because you are producing a Good for the national future. To me, you have ALREADY PAID your taxes in diapers, baby clothes, and above all that, famous money-equivalent, TIME.