If marriage is a blessing from God then why do married people want a tax break.?

Question

they already pay less taxes then if they were single even though they already have less expenses. So why is marriage treated like a curse because they want even more of a tax break.

Answer 1

Because marriage provides a social stability which other "relationships" do not and should be encouraged.

It is also hard work to make it work and implies a full commitment.

I know that bad marriages exists and good other elationships exist, but I stick to marriage as being the most secure if worked at

Answer 2

Because the expences of raising a family is outrageous. Especially if you are a single parent. Who said marriage was a blessing from God anyway? The bible sure doesnt say that.

Answer 3

Becoming married raises your taxes under US federal law. Various marriage tax breaks are designed to offset that.

Answer 4

Your fed taxes go up when you get married. Go sit in the corner smoke something and come up with that tax the rich plan again. Maaaannnnnn.

Added

OK maybe he as smart as he said he is. So I looked it up and married and single filers get the same deductions however.

following is cut and pasted.

The marriage penalty. You've undoubtedly heard about the marriage-tax penalty, the quirk in the tax law that makes a married couple pay more income tax than they would have to if they remained single. Here's a little secret: Most married couples get a marriage bonus: paying less income tax than they would if each partner were single.

At issue is the graduated nature of the tax rates, which applies higher tax rates to higher levels of income. When you pile one income onto another on a joint return, it can push some of that income into a higher tax bracket.

me again. So joining the two incomes can make you go in a higher tax bracket when married. And paying more taxes. If you ever worked overtime see how much more the gov takes out.

Liberals remember

research

research

research.

Just because your friend, teacher, professor, said it doesn't make it true. I used to work at a college, you know how much bad advice and information there is at a college.

Added Sunday

You say that you are the first to admit when you are wrong.

We are waiting.

Answer 5

In the military--many many many folks get married just for the tax breaks and extra benefits---which cause many horrible marriages and ugly divorces---

Answer 6

Well because most married people have children, and it is not cheap to raise a child in this day and time.  Unless a single person has a child, a single person does not have the expenses that married people have (daycare, school supplies, etc....).

Children are a choice for most. No one makes them have children but if people quit now, in 100 years there would be no one left to pay taxes and the government and politicians can't have that to happen.  

There are a lot of single people that have been blessed with a child so you can't use that as an argument and they get tax breaks too (head of household). One day you might just get married and have 10 kids and you will be thankful for tax breaks too.  And don't say you are not going to cause you don't know where you will be 10 years from now.  I am more worried about the social security and medicare tax taken out of my pay that I might never see.  I least I can see how my tax dollars are wasted every time I leave the house.

Answer 7

Because the traditional family unit is the most effective way of raising children and reducing poverty.

Another issue is that our current tax laws penalize married couples with higher taxes.  Why should a married couple have to pay higher taxes than two single people?

Answer 8

Because they are entitled to the break under the LAW

not under the rules from an invisible man that lives in the sky?

Answer 9

WHAT?????

Answer 10

This dates from a time when married women didn't work as often as they do now, it was sort of a bone to them a bit extra as a way for the government to say thank you to stay at home moms who weren't taking men's jobs when they came back from wars.

So in exchange for cooking, cleaning, raising children and staying out of the job market, they got a resounding amount of approximately $140.

Married people aren't organized enough to ask for tax breaks with any success, they don't even have lobbyists.

God may have something to do with marriages, but Hes got nothing to do with taxes.