Posted on 06/24/2019 9:31:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
True to form on the intersectionality front, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, introduced a bill to extend the idea of reparations to LGBT people. While far more limited in scope than frequent calls for slavery reparations to black Americans, the proposal blames the U.S. government for withholding benefits same-sex couples allegedly should have received before the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).
On Friday, Warren re-introduced S. 1940, the Refund Equality Act, which would allow same-sex couples to amend past tax returns. According to a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the bill would direct $57 million in refunds. The funds would go to same-sex couples in states that had legalized same-sex marriage before the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Warren introduced an earlier version of the bill in 2017.
"The federal government forced legally married same-sex couples in Massachusetts to file as individuals and pay more in taxes for almost a decade," Warren said in a statement on the legislation. "We need to call out that discrimination and to make it right — Congress should pass the Refund Equality Act immediately."
"It wasn’t until marriage equality became law that gay & lesbian couples could jointly file tax returns—so they paid more in taxes," Warren tweeted Saturday. "Our government owes them more than $50M for the years our discriminatory tax code left them out. We must right these wrongs."
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Swimming the perverted liberal gutters looking for votes...
What about illegals? Don’t they “deserve” something too?
Free money for all non old white men!
Chinese and Irish immigrants deserve reparations too.
Remember the Chinese exclusion act?
What about the “No Irish Need Apply” signs in New York?
This is way past silly.
I want reparations, because I ALWAYS fed my kids without Food Stamps or free or subsidized meals at school (year-round). I also ALWAYS kept up their health insurance premiums.
There were a few times that I might have qualified for help, but didn’t request it. This could have been (but wasn’t) due to insufficient communications by the government, as to what was available.... So, because I MIGHT have “suffered”, and it MIGHT have been the fault of the government, I should get some money now.
(JK of course)
Technically, it is illegal to walk around on election day and hand people $50 or so in return for their vote. But the Left is endlessly creative in finding ways around this little legal speed bump.
The government has denied me my right to marry my sister so that we both would not be burdened with outrageous taxes! I demand reparations for that too!
If we are doing that...
Shouldn’t the lawyers who were prevented from cashing in gay Divorces for so long be entitled to something too?
While we’re at it.
I “lacked self control” in grade school during the 60’s and mid 70’s. As a result I was often sent to the principals office for some “coaching”.
It turns out I had ADHD that went untreated. As a result I missed classroom time which likely was the first step in preventing me from becoming a billionaire hedge fund manager.
WHERE do I get my money?
I am a VICTIM I tell ya.
I guess the Senator never heard of the "Marriage Penalty". Queers should be charged retroactively if they are found to have been involved in common law "marriages".
ML/NJ
MS. WARREN’S WAR BONNET MUST BE TOO TIGHT.
Why just couples?
Why not “married” threesomes?
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any crazier...
Gays are now getting married tax breaks when they are actually single people shacking up together. I don’t recognize their “marriage”
So there’s that.
Isn’t there a marriage penalty tax for those couples of roughly equal income when they file jointly, regardless if their incomes are high or low?
About 12%?
Gray Beaver is frantic, thinks she can out-left Crazy Bernie.
Prediction: the rest of the Rat tard candidates will soon be screaming “Me too, me too!!!”
The crazy doesn’t end till you become Hell.
When I read articles like this I can really think of one thing: There must be a revolution coming. If these people actually win, we’re done. It will come swift.
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