lets see... a guy is offered a job for $X and he says no, he is then offered $X+x and takes the job. a woman is offered the same $X for an identical job in the same department and she takes $X.
WHY should she get a TAX break for that???
I see a 14th Amendment case in the making if that happens.
It'll never end.
But if women earn less, aren’t they already in lower tax brackets?
I agree.
Along with EVERYONE else receiving the same break.
Only the "Star and Sickle" would promote equity by taking from those who have for the benefit of those who don't, they're one of the only remaining Communist rags left in our country.
I’d be in favor of taxing illegal aliens more.
Hah! I’ve always thought certain “monthly” necessities should be tax deductible. It really adds up over the years! ;-)
0.5 / sarc
Cool I will hire mine, pay her my salary, and pay myself $1 a year. Then we will file separately.
If you pay tuition to Harvard, you’re helping to fund this insane nonsense.
lets see... a guy is offered a job for $X and he says no, he is then offered $X+x and takes the job. a woman is offered the same $X for an identical job in the same department and she takes $X.
WHY should she get a TAX break for that???
How about a lower tax rate for only those women deemed “hot” by a board a select men - maybe a panel similar to the guys who make “Man Law”. The really ugly ones pay an extra 10%.
Yes, more Marxist social engineering. Let’s make EVERY U.S. citizen pay a flat tax (fair tax, whatever)...I am tired of the Washington pols using confiscatory taxation on the producers in this country, TO BUY VOTES FROM THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO SELL THEIR VOTES for reduced or NO tax liability.
This is BS. It has to be stopped.
Yes, more Marxist social engineering. Let’s make EVERY U.S. citizen pay a flat tax (fair tax, whatever)...I am tired of the Washington pols using confiscatory taxation on the producers in this country, TO BUY VOTES FROM THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO SELL THEIR VOTES for reduced or NO tax liability.
This is BS. It has to be stopped.
This is such a horrible idea as to be ridiculous. I personally would like lower taxes for everyone. We need to strip the ability of politicians to use taxes for social engineering. It is a corruption that gives them power they do no deserve and have demonstrated they can not use responsibly.
the “study” from Harvard also wants to increase taxes for men to make up the difference.
After all, we can’t have any discrimination.
So we all just check female. :-)
I like this idea. Will put my company in wifes name.
The printed tax code today is only 10 stories high. Let’s double it.
Link to PDF of the academic paper by these two bozo “economists”:
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/alesina/papers/genderbasedtaxation-0307.pdf
(And why in hell are two Italians telling the U.S. how to tax its citizens?)