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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suggested to my wife we not get married due to the tax penalty (we ended up paying $20k more per year!) and she was hearing none of that. She was like well then we're paying it. Luckily, god bless President Trump, he eliminated that penalty for pretty much everyone - probably the single biggest pro-family political action ever taken[/quote]

I thought the tax code incentivized marriage? [/quote]

NP. My dh and I made like 75k each when we got married, but we paid an extra 4k in taxes once we were married. I couldn't believe it when I saw the tax bill.

Frankly I think the tax code should do MORE to incentivize marriage. I have friends who are engaged, but not married so that their kids can receive services from school for free and other aid (I only know about the school services and free lunch, but she mentioned others)[/quote]

NP. If they genuinely need those services, are both lower-income, and marrying would tip their household income to a point where the kids would not be eligible, I get why they'd remain unmarried. But if they're just angling for free services and gaming the system, that's wrong. Going to hope here that the issue is the former--unfair rules that mean being just barely over the eligibility threshold takes away needed services that a family then can't afford....[/quote]

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