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From: ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.singles,net.flame
Subject: Re: Marriage penalty
Message-ID: <793@loral.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 23:53:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 23:53:17 1985
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Reply-To: ian@loral.UUCP (Spike)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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Summary: 

One point that no one mentions is that a two-earner family puts twice as
much effort (more or less) into earning that combined annual salary than a
one-earner family.  My SO and I work a total of > 80 hours/week for the
priviledge of paying more federal taxes and twice as much social security
tax as a one-earner family.  (By "work", I mean income producing activities.  
Please, no flames about househusbands/wives and work. I cook, clean house,
and raise the minature human too.)

And because we must both work to survive in today's economy (no more free
rides for spouses except if you're rich) we must pay for childcare
($100/week) which is an added expense that a one-earner family normally
does not have.

(I'm not bitchin' about today's economy here.  Only about the marriage
penalty.)

{"I should have listened to my mother.  She told me not to get married.",
 "I should have listened to my mother.  She told me to marry money."}

Spike
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