President Elect Obama, Tax incentives for the married.

[Amimnoch]

I am so unspeakably torn over yesterdays results. I think we need to lobby for our new stronger majority House and Senate, and for our new President to take a real stand for the GLBT base that has supported them. Last night we suffered horrible defeats to our equal rights. One thing I'd like to suggest (and I wrote the HRC about it this morning as well), is now that we have the majority, and President Obama will have the full power to push through his great tax package, I'd soooo love to see it altered in wording that any state that restricts marriage between any consenting adults, or specifically specifies marriage as being between man and woman to be excluded from ANY "married" persons being able to file taxes jointly, or as married. NO married filing jointly tax breaks to ANYONE who resides in states that have written discrimination into law or their state constitution. Let the jackasses that pushed these laws into existance feel a bit of what it feels like to be discriminated against!

[keepCAblue]

1. Kick and Recommend. It'll never happen, but brilliant idea...n/t

[NorthCarolina]

2. The election is over, the LGBT community is once again just an afterthought until 2012

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[2Design]

3. vote married people in discriminary states must pay double taxes

[Amimnoch]

4. Much as I love the idea of it...

I think it would be going too far, as far as reprecussions go.

I feel, that if, when President Obama gets around to pushing his tax reform bill, if the Democratic leadership is at all willing to support us, as we support them, then they should attach to the tax reform stipulations that residents of States who have written discrimination into either law, or their constitution, that NO marriage will be legally recognized by the government at all. That ALL adults filing taxes have to file as single.. no married filing as a couple or married filing seperately. Still allow for them to claim all other dependants (children, caring for an elderly family member) but take away all tax incentives for married couples that they gain directly from their marriage until discrimination laws are repealed. Maybe then, people in states who have deigned to arbitrarily stomp all over our rights can get a taste of what it feels like. A small taste sure, but one that maybe, just MAYBE will let them see just a sliver of what we endure. Of course, it will be just a taste, as they will still be able to see their spouse when he/she is in a critical care condition. They will still be able to make critical medical decisions for their spouse when he/she is ill or injured to the point that he/she can't make decisions for himself/herself. They still won't have to worry about their spouses family walking in should the worst happen to their husband/wife, and raiding the house and home they've built together, and the associated years of legal battles, many times trying to reclaim their own personal property! just to name a few things that they still won't have to endure that we do!