[Thoro]

Get government out of marriage. Totally out. Free citizens of a free country should be able to make their own family arrangements without government interference. Just think, all those cohabiting senior citizens who might like to get married but can't afford to since the government would cut their social security benefits, would be free to march down to their local church and get married.

It's been my opinion that government is involved because marriage is supposed to create more taxpayers.

[GovernmentShrinker]

More accurately, it creates opportunity for the government to extract more tax revenues from the same number of taxpayers. Witness the infamous "marriage penalty".