Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxw.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxw!kalm From: kalm@ihuxw.UUCP (James ) Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.singles,net.flame Subject: Re: Marriage penalty and Michael Esco Message-ID: <1061@ihuxw.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 00:10:23 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxw.1061 Posted: Fri Feb 22 00:10:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 02:36:26 EST References: <285@calmasd.UUCP> <429@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17 Xref: linus net.taxes:576 net.singles:4922 net.flame:7490 > There is no such thing as a marriage penalty. The penalty is against single > people, and has been for as long as I've been paying taxes. > > Michael Esco > Boeing Aerospace Obviously Mr. Esco is suffering from the delusion that two (and their dependents) can live as cheaply as one. I suspect that his opinion will change some day, unless he is a confirmed bachelor. I must take his contribution to the net as seriously as I take the Schedule W to be a solution to the problem. -- Jim Kalmadge - AT&T Bell Labs IH 4b409 8-367-4325 (312) 979-4325 ihuxw!kalm