Wow! I had no idea that our federal tax laws were retroactive to the beginning of time.
I seldom comment on ignorant statements by others but yours have to be at the all time top of the list.
A stable family is important to a stable society. Governments for thousands of years kept track of who married who and not just for tax reasons.
If you accept the idea a family of one man and one woman raising children is good, then it is a minor thing to give that family a tax break.
But governments has long been in the “marriage business” certainly longer then there were federal taxes.
Exactly, societies do not exist without marriage law, whether it is tribal law, or a state religion's law, or government law, or whatever, the society has to have marriage laws.
Why we are wasting time pretending that we are going to get the GOP to start campaigning (and winning) on erasing marriage and divorce law in America, removing marriage from the public space entirely, is ridiculous.