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Quote by: jamesbdunn;322096
[quote Any combination of persons including multiple men and/or women should be allowed to experience life together and be afforded the same financial benefits to support such union. As for church marriages, that is up to the church; afterall, a church represents a union of people with a similar system of beliefs and the Government excludes them from having to pay ANY taxes. |
They can still experience life together, they just don't get the tax breaks. Single people don't get the supposed tax breaks, either. Actually in some cases it's better to be single tax-wise. Many lower income people stay single for that very reason. People with children can get quite a hefty sum back tax-wise, if they are under $30,000, with the earned income credit.
Many polygamous marriages do take advantage of the system because only wife number one is recognized, so the others many times get welfare, and all that goes with it for their too many children. Personally, I think polygamy is very unrewarding for the women involved, and it stinks. We don't need it to survive as a society.
Basically in MO we don't have to change anything to survive as a society and that's the reason this is an uphill battle.
It's true we could offer gays civil unions, but this is an intrusion into our system of one man, one woman unions that is family-oriented. True, true gays can and do make good parents, and add many great things to society, and many of us love them dearly, but it seems we don't want our family structure tampered with hardly at all.