Grandma, Will You Marry Me?

Jerhad!com ^ | 3/10/04 | Jeremy Robb

[Sloth]

Now you only need something new, borrowed and blue.

[Lunatic Fringe]

[Chewbacca]

This brings up interesting issues regarding inheritance, especially if the elder relative you want to marry has an estate value greater than $1 Million.

Marry your father or mother, aunt or uncle, grandparent and transfer the estate into your name through marriage without incurring any federal estate taxes, then get divorced.

[roadcat]

I'd marry my dog in San Francisco, but he died a couple years ago. But wait a minute, that should still be okay! After all, Gavin Newsom doesn't want others to be discriminated against if they aren't the traditional man and woman marriage. I'll just dig up my pet, and go on down to City Hall for a license! If you're in the area, that odor you smell may not necessarily be coming from my long-dead dog!

[martin_fierro]

Ewe lover, ewe.

[Mr. Silverback]

Whether you're boinking your grandma is none of the State's business, the SCOTUS said so in Lawrence vs. Texas. How glad you must be to live in San Fran, where you can exercise such freedoms, just as the founders intended! What terrible, tyrannical darkness the rest of us dwell in, living in municipalities where grandma marriage is not yet allowed!

What a brave new world! Embrace it, baby!

[Izzy Dunne]

I’m quite sure he’ll be just as proud to bless my marriage to my grandmother and break down the walls on yet another unfair discriminatory practice in this country.

Would you care to wager on that?
I'll bet he would NOT be proud to accommodate you.
I'll bet he would laugh in your face!
Why?

You're not on his "approved" list of minorities...
His "tolerance" only goes so far...

[omniscient]

Soon we will have the ultimate logical extension of this idiocy: self-marriages, in which you can marry yourself or maybe just a particular body part.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

LTMT!! (Laughing Through My Tears) Whatever! I, myself, am planning to marry several ewes and adopt their children (conceived, I blush to confess, out of wedlock due to youthful indiscretions) for tax purposes. We plan to invite the whole Freeper contingent to the tasteful, quiet ceremony. I'm going to pit barbeque some of our "kids" (sorry, PETA), serve adult beverages and encourage irresponsible and dangerous tobacco use (especially fine cigars). After the ceremony, the wives and I will depart for our new home in whichever state has the best welfare benefits (and high quality alfalfa grazing). Oh yes . . . we'll register DemonRAT the second we arrive. We know what side our bread is buttered on. Actually, the wives are a little young to vote (although that may change shortly). I wouldn't want to break any laws. Anyway, it's all good . . .

[JoJo Gunn]

BUMP!

[codercpc]

Just think, if he has decent insurance through his job, Grandma can also get prescription drug coverage, and won't have to wait for the Medicare bill to go into effect.

[bondjamesbond]

Do you know my friend, Biggus .....

Seriously, though. If granny has a lot of money in the bank, this is a great way to get around the estate tax. Just have Granny marry down in age, and pass the money down without Uncle Sam getting so much as a taste!

Us low-tax Republicans should be all for this!

[momfirst]

Oh will you PLEASE!!! I begged my brother to marry me yesterday, we love each other tremendously, and he could get dental benefits through me (boy does he need them). I don't think it should matter that we're both still married to our spouses. There's no line that says ONE male and/or ONE female...No go, he suggested I marry mom, she needs the health benefits more, but she's in Seattle. Oh wait! If she comes down here to Portland and we tie the knot, Seattle will recognize it!

Really, somebody needs to have the guts to show them just how rediculous it is to re-define marriage, and in all fairness, as they state, you can't discriminate - go for it! Please, please, please!!

[shelterguy]

If a man is bisexual, shouldn't he be allowed to marry both a man and a woman? How about people with multiple personalities?

[Gottwnz]

And why would that be apples and oranges?

[MarkT]

Actually, if the Dems are able to reverse the Bush tax cuts and the estate tax goes back to whatever, then if you marry your grandmother (assuming a sibling doesn't beat you to the old babe), her estate can pass to you tax free under the spousal election...the possibilities are endless...more anon.

[JoJo Gunn]

I want to marry myself.

But if I get a divorce, who gets the house?

[FreedomAvatar]

Your feminine side.

[jolie560]

Great idea--I have a never-married Aunt who is now in her 80's. She owns the family house outright, all by herself.

We can save a bundle on evading Medicaid liens on the property if she needs to go into a nursing home. After we're married, the house and property will be exempt since I, as her spouse, reside in the home.

Trying to comply with Medicaid's "Transfer-of-Assets" provision takes 5 years and Attorney and Legal costs.

Getting married to my aunt is so much simpler.