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Subject: Re: Re: marriage penalty (long quote at
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Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 22:09:00 EST
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Our experience is that two people cannot successfully share (for a long
period of time) the space that one person lived in happily.  

Example:  single engineers around here tend to buy condos when they are
looking for both a home and a tax break.  Most of those condos don't
work for two people who have hobbies, sports interest, and a lifetime's
worth of books and brickabrack.  So couples end up buying a house -
and the monthly payment for the typical 3bed/2bath house around here is
just about double the monthly payment for the typical 1-2 bedroom condo.

Two people eat two people's food, wear two people's clothes, use two
people's worth of medical services and transportation, etc. - we have
not noticed any breaks.  In fact, our insurance costs went up because
we added each other to our individual car insurance.

You better believe I resent Uncle Sam charging us $2-3000/year for the
privilege of filing a little piece of paper in the state capitol.  But
I am not optimistic about anything happening about it.  The amount of
money they'd lose would be phenomenal, and when was the last time you
saw the government voluntarily give up revenues?

Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 487-4100 x4664
net:  {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea 

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