Biden's $3.5 trillion spending bill ramps up the Left's assault on marriage
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
The institution of the family has never been weaker. And by further punishing marriage, President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion spending agenda will only weaken it further.
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Marriage used to be the foundational building block of society. In 1960, 75% of all households included a married couple and 44% included a married couple with children. Today, just 49% of all households include a married couple and just 19% contain a married couple with children.
Many Democrats treat marriage as a tool of patriarchal oppression, but decades of research show that it is highly beneficial not only for children but also adults.
Even after controlling for race and income, children born to married parents reach adulthood healthy, wealthy, and gainfully employed at higher rates than those born to unmarried parents. Married adults are themselves healthier, wealthier, and happier than their unmarried counterparts. No institution has a better track record than marriage of fostering successful life outcomes.
For 60 years, the Left has responded to this, as night follows day, by trying to supplant families with social engineering programs. Virtually every means-tested program — Medicaid, food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, public housing, and Obamacare, to name just a few — punish people by stanching the flow of benefits to those who get married.
By expanding these programs, Biden's $3.5 trillion spending agenda makes these marriage penalties worse. According to a new paper by the Niskanen Center, Biden's Earned Income Tax Credit expansion would by itself cause couples to lose $2,500 per year if they tie the knot.
Some couples would suffer more than others. Couples without children in which one partner makes significantly more than the other would suffer the smallest penalties. Couples in which a single mother earns about the same as her partner would suffer the most.
Biden's Medicaid and Affordable Care Act expansions also punish marriage. Working families know these marriage penalties exist and don't think they are fair. A black working mother in Atlanta recently told a focus group about another mother who had chosen not to get married so she could keep her federal benefits: "I just feel like they should do something when it comes to married couples, because it's sad that she has to choose between marrying a man she loves or losing the benefits that she has. That shouldn't be a choice that any working American or any American should have to make."
No one should have to choose between social benefits and marriage. But that is exactly the choice the Left has been forcing on generations of people. Biden now intends to make the problem worse.
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Nucking Futz, Democrats do not support any such thing. They may support safety nets for those who find themselves in that situation.
Oeousa.org
An opinion website from 2020 that doesn't believe discrimination exists in the USA quoting a 2018 report
which quotes "final' opinions from a 1998 study which concludes that as many as 1 in 3 births start out or end up
as single parent families which can be blamed on the Democrats?
How fucked up is that logic?
If you truly believed that, maybe you should start supporting abortion to prevent that.
"It seems" is a cute way of not owning your own outrageous shit.
You might note nobody put their name on this shit.
As far as we can tell the author is Vladimir Putin...
An enemy bent on subverting progress in America.
Its from the Washington Examiner.
No author.
Not an editorial.
just another piece of journalistic crap "tagged" as editorial.
Journalistic cowardice,
What an ignorantly obtuse statement.
As the author states, those programs are 'means tested', yet contrary to the authors claim, they are NOT 'marriage tested'.
Oh and BTFW, the Right has supported and even demanded that 'means testing' be part of legislation. So the it's bullshit to blame the Left.
Sounds like faux outrage. Then they can gin up support to hurt the programs.
Notice they they can all complain about it yet not offer any way to help the programs.
They want to demonize and dismantle.
They aren't married so why does it bother you since this "article" claims MARRIED people are being punished - OBVIOUSLY that is wrong.
AND I love how some on the right get to define not only marriage but family as well.
Too funny that anyone thinks that a majority of people consider tax brackets and income tax ramifications before tying the knot
whether the pregnancy or the wedding was voluntary.
Dems, always bad, Reps always purer than fresh fallen snow, especially where marriage vows are concerned ... // SS
Yea & the "paper" this "article" is based on does not exist.
Funny it took someone else to find it - I know I know you don't like to actually have to look for anything to back up your hatred.
Now who is putting words in someone else's mouth?
I dare say that the majority of people get married because they love or like each other so much
mentally, sexually, psychically, whatever that they don't put much weight in the taxable issues.
Try telling your fiance that you can only marry him/her in Montana for tax reasons.
i don't think that conversation will end well.
Tax matters are no more on their mind than when they buy or lease a car
and pay whatever property taxes or sales taxes the state demands.
It's silly to pretend otherwise.
This is basically just conservative whiners crying "Tax dollars that are spent to help the disabled are staunching the flow of benefits to the abled! Able bodied Americans lose $10,000 in annual benefits simply by not getting disabled, how is this fair? All these benefits for the disabled, orphans, widows, single parents, hundreds of millions in tax dollars spent on them is slapping the second or third plate of food right out of the hands of straight white married Christian conservatives hands!"...
As a rich person I am excited that most of the new entitlements will be available to privileged people such as myself, I was a bit shocked they didn't exclude me based on income. As for the tax increases? They are leaving so many loopholes for wealthy it won't change a thing.
This is what I love about Nancy, she is ass raping the middle class as usual. God bless progress!