A Libertarian would look over this and say that it’s not the federal gov’t or state gov’t business to manage marriage except as a union affair to protect assets and have a way later to split up property. A marriage, as far as I’m concerned....really only happens when you involve the church. The state’s job....if any....is to run the union side of it and have a orderly method of carving up joint property. The involvement of marriage into taxes is awful stupid and one of the reasons why we have such a corrupted tax system.
I agree. The use of the income tax code to engage in social engineering is deeply pernicious and destructive both to economic flourishing and personal life. We simply should not have it.
For the state to impose homo marriage on an entire population is an act of totalitarianism that should not be tolerated, but resisted with every means possible.
NEVER
“The involvement of marriage into taxes is awful stupid and one of the reasons why we have such a corrupted tax system.”
As much as I understand the logic, a question one must ask is what exactly should the state do if the people simply decide to stop having kids? The easy answer is do nothing - and watch the population decline to the point where it’s unable to defend itself against outside attack. That is CLEARLY the direction that Europe and much of Asia is going in (Muslims taking over demographically in Europe, and simple population decline in Asia).
So based on the above...so my grandchildren will still have a country to live in, I am FINE with the state giving incentives to have kids. Can it be done in a better, cleaner way, yes, but it must be done if we are to have a country that looks anything like the America of 2013, in the (not-so-far) future.
As to why the West no longer has kids, or at least have them at replacement level, two factors - women in the workplace and birth control. No one wants to change those...so we the birth rate tanks.