Tax returns could be the basis for a federal court case on marriage. Suppose a judge somewhere decides that Mass. married same sex couples, or civil union couples from another state should be treated as married per IRS regulations. If that ever happened, that would pave the way for 50 state gay marriage. After all, the legal reasoning would be, that the IRS, a unit of the federal government, recognizes these couples as married, and that other units of government should also.
If Hillary is elected, she would appoint liberal judges who would make rulings such as noted above though it uses convoluted logic to arrive at the conclusion.
Oh, great citizens, suing for symbolic reasons, while costing the state an untold sum of money. That money has to come from somewhere. You suppose somewhere there’s an abused child whose life will be forfeit because the bucks went elsewhere and no one was watching?
I don’t think we should insult this couple by using the word “joint” in the title. They obvously find that to be objectionable.
The simple solution is for the state to make everyone file their own tax return. A married couple would be able to assign all the dependents, other than the spouse, to one or the other, but not both’s tax return.
Before you go roaring off about this proposed change as being anti-family, please examine that it would pay stay at home mothers as much as we now pay those who won’t work through the incorrectly named “earned income tax credit”. And who knows, this proposal may just get the lamestream media to examine that tax transfer program when millions more Americans become “eligible” for it. And the scrutiny might kill another of Uncle Teddy’s crapbrained ideas.
This was not really a victory, as they will be able to pretend to be married on future tax returns.
Isn’t it a violation of federal law to file different status on your state and federal returns?