No, Mr. Oppenheimer. The government should get out of the business of regulating marriage, religion, and anything near, far and in-between.
You want to end the exemptions? Go flat tax and call it a day.
You want to end the exemptions? Go flat tax and call it a day.
What you said.
I keep reading this observation that government should get out of marriage altogether.
The thing is that laws and the courts have a role (and a legitimate one) in the dissolution of marriage. Government is involved and there really is no practical substitute (something like arbitration will lead to uneven and unpredictable results - there needs to be laws to give stability to the process).