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

The divorce lawyers here hahaha it is a whole industry. The divorce rate here is something like 52% - so the odds are that if you get married, then eventually it will end in disaster and you'll break up. So see it is mistake to get married it just increases the chances it will end badly.....or at least that is what I tell girlygirl....but hey the numbers don't lie haha