>>>I personally don't care who marries what, but I don't see how the tax preferences and other benefits that go to married couples make sense any more, if they ever did.
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>>If the one out of work/poor partner receives less subsidy if the other partner is wealthy, it does make sense... That said, I'd prefer tax preferences to target raising kids instead of marriage.
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>The tax laws here for married vs single people it a fine example of stupidity.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty
>Lucky for me I've managed to dodge the married-bullet thus far hehe so I don't have to worry about it.

same here - tax benefits for being married would only have subsidized divorce lawyers.