Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ebb tide

I have thought this since the same-sex marriage decision came down from SCOTUS and not just for incest reasons. Tax law protects assets passed from one spouse to another in death.

Many small businesses and farms are lost because of tax burdens generated by handing the business down to the children. If marriage is no longer about procreating and rearing children, consanguinity no longer matters. Family assets can be protected by the surviving parent legally marrying the chosen inheritor and thus the inheritance taxes are avoided and the business stays within the family. No one wants the government going into bedrooms to make sure the “marriage” is actually consummated, so actual incest is not necessary.

Frankly I am surprised someone hadn’t done this years ago, like immediately after the decision.


43 posted on 04/12/2021 1:13:32 PM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Flying Circus
Family assets can be protected by the surviving parent legally marrying the chosen inheritor and thus the inheritance taxes are avoided and the business stays within the family

Talk about a loophole. What next, Somali's marrying their brothers to gain entry into the US?

44 posted on 04/12/2021 1:15:40 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson