'Domestic Partnerships': An unfair tax break for the (gay) rich.

Self | 2-19-04 | The KG9 Kid

[Lurker]

Well put.

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[Modernman]

Until those get worked out, we're left with little more than an incoherent, noisome din.

Just look at the threads on FR. They always degenerate into name-calling and endless expositions on the evilness of homosexuality.

If conservatives are so polarized on this issue, what does that say?

[swarthyguy]

Bingo. Again, the insights Freepers will come up with.

No one wants to touch this fact and that the recent tax cuts with ramifications for estate and probate law might be driving the push for legal marriage benefits.

Well Done!

[EdReform]

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[bondjamesbond]

Get government out of the marriage business.

You are absolutely right about that. If government is involved, marriage becomes a political football and people will use the power of the government to destroy the institution.

Nothing good can come from government involvement in marriage.

For instance, the vast majority of people view civil divorce as the final word on ending a marriage. Since in most states civil divorce is simply a matter of filing paperwork, the state has made divorce painless, and divorce is more common.

[tinamina]

This must be new. My understanding of the CCSF benefits for domestic partners is that since the Federal government doesn't recognize domestic partners, the cost of the insurance is deducted from the paychecks of the employee, but it cannot be pretaxed under Section 125 of the IRC, like it would be for married employees. Several years ago this was not taxable as income, and the only way it would be is if the employer paid the premium cost of the domestic partner, but I haven't seen this happen.
An employer can offer an employee $50K of life insurance for free, but if that same employer wants to give another $50K life insurance, the premium it pays for that $50K is taxable income to the employee. Is this the same sort of thing?

[WOSG]

Just another example of how recognition of gay partnerships chips away at traditional marriage.

The only way to "correct" this is to wipe away any privilege of marriage at all in the law. Presto -end of marriage!

[Amerigomag]

Get government out of the marriage business.

Government isn't in the marriage business. They're in the tax business.

Domestic contracts are just another vehicle to create a revenue stream.