08-27-2008, 04:48 PM
Mad Dog Wrote:No, not at all, just pointing out that there are differences, and since they are in the slim minority there block voting power is vastly diminished.
While i agree there is the potential for income and spending to be quite different between gay people and straight people, the government should not be adjusting accordingly in any way. i stand by my original statement. The government should always view people as individuals, and it should make no difference if i am married, not married, have kids, do not have kids, etc... By making any distinction they are clearly setting it up for double standards, which goes back to the famous "All men are created equal" statement.
If i pay more or less taxes than you do because of my marital status, regardless of whether you are straight, gay, bisexual, half man half dog (aka Mog), etc... then it is not equal.
The tax system is inherently not equal anyway, if they are going to give us the old screw job with an income tax, it should be a flat percentage, not this income bracket BS. Just because i make more money than someone else, if the percentage is the same inherently i will be paying more, but instead i am paying more, and then more because the percentage changed because i just got a raise that equals out to 10 cents more an hour, but i got pushed into a new bracket.
/end rant