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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Fri Mar 6, 2015, 11:22 PM Mar 2015

This is what I hate about our tax laws [View all]

A couple - one makes a good chunk of change, the other, extremely modest income.

Combined, the modest income partner pays so much more, as a percentage, than if they
were single.

It almost makes it not worth working.

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This is what I hate about our tax laws [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2015 OP

Not really padfun Mar 2015 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author devils chaplain Mar 2015 #4

I hate a lot of things about it, but this is true for us too. n/t devils chaplain Mar 2015 #2

"extremely modest", is this a thing? it sounds like "jumbo shrimp". Sarcastica Mar 2015 #3

Well.... for the two of them combined, if they are married, their total tax bill will be much lower Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #5

Single People are discriminated against a lot, too daredtowork Mar 2015 #6