[Olog-hai]

And what if they made Matt and Michael consummate the marriage to prove it was not fraudulent, eh? Michael FitzMatthew and Matthew FitzMichael.

[a fool in paradise]

What of elderly siblings who never married and live together?

Why must one lose the house because the other passed on?

[LouieFisk]

There should be no inheritance/estate/death taxes at all to begin with - but I suspect I’m preaching to the choir on FR.
:D

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Shouldn’t have to get married. He paid taxes when he made the money. He should be able to give it to whomever he wants.

[tired&retired]

Many old folks just live together rather than taking the cut in Social Security benefits by getting married.

While the federal estate exemption is over $5million and being doubled, thus it doesnt apply to many, Pennsylvania’s inheritance tax for transfer to an unmarried partner is 15% of everything.

[LukeL]

Love has nothing to do with a state marriage license. It is nothing more than a legal contract to combine two entities into one in the eye of the law (for tax purposes, child raising, property etc)

[Cowboy Bob]

Why don’t they just do away with the inheritance tax? It's double taxation.

[Freelance Warrior]

‘...He was born in a mixed marriage, his father is a man and the mother is a woman, a very uncommon thing in the today’s Europe’.

[fwdude]

The perverts made “marriage” about benefits, so that’s what we’ll get - a tax avoidance scheme.

[Steven Tyler]

Gonna need another letter and expand the:

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