Seriously, if you actually get a tax break, why wouldn’t two hetero buddies marry, then declare they’re straight and marrying to screw the system? When they find their female wives, divorce each other.
The Right should stop playing this Progressive game - Get governments out of Marriage and return it to churches only.
There's no requirement that either party in a same-sex marriage needs to be homosexual, or that the marriage needs to be consummated. He's just scratching the surface when it comes to the estate planning and financial planning possibilities.
When money is involved, people can become very creative about interpreting laws in ways that have nothing to do with the intentions of the law's authors.
As recently as July of 2013, the US gov't was still paying out one pension form the Civil War!http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/07/03/one-civil-war-veterans-pension-remains-on-governments-payroll