If your father and mother took a tax exemption for you, they were subsidized. There are great expense incurred by having and raising a child. IAC. not likely you and I can come to agreement because you seem to buy the statist argument that society is no more than a collective of individuals, that the institution of marriage did not exist prior to the state and therefore has natural rights that the state is bound to respect. Marriage as defined by law imposes duties and obligations, even those apart from rearing children not borne by single individuals therefore a married couple ought to be given special consideration
Child credits didn't exist back then nor did marriage credits. They did have dependent deductions. All three of those should be banished. It amazes me that some people feel they have a right for me to carry a heavier tax burden just because I am not married nor have a child. Get the damn federal government out of marriage all together and the gay marriage issue becomes moot and the married people and those with kids need to start paying their fair share of the taxes and quit being subsidized (welfare) by the government.