Thats like saying the feds should not tax income. One can argue these things all they want but it is pissing in the wind. Marriage status affects taxes and thus it IS a fed and state issue whether we like it or not.
Before WWI [IIRC] they didn't.
One can argue these things all they want but it is pissing in the wind. Marriage status affects taxes and thus it IS a fed and state issue whether we like it or not.
That's a load.
A perfectly good taxation system could work completely independent of marriage: flat-tax rate, no exemptions, no withholding, no credit, no write-offs.
Or a national sales-tax (this is a bad idea though; imagine what would happen if it were a progressive system, tied to you personally... perhaps enforced/managed by a chip in the right hand or forehead).