Quote Originally Posted by brobar View Post
I don't see how being married OR single creates a morality issue. I agree that the government should not be in the business of legislating morals. Replace marriages with civil unions and they no longer would be! As far as the single person being left out... well there are some benefits that can only come with having a spouse. True... if I don't have a spouse... I don't have to worry about inheritance from that spouse, or life insurance from that spouse, of medical insurance because they are my spouse, or hospital visitation rights and medical making decisions for that spouse... because without a spouse... all of those benefits are moot. Do people want to have those spousal benefits without having a spouse? Well... boo hoo! That is the reason they are called spousal benefits and not just everybody benefits. These benefits may not mean much to you... but they mean a lot to others. I see no reason why same sex spouses shouldn't have those same benefits. I do see why single people don't get those benefits though... because you kind of have to have a spouse to have spousal benefits. Should we just throw all of those protected benefits out the window because some single person feels left out? I, for one, say no!
No, you're missing the point entirely. You're examples are discounts given by 3rd party PRIVATE companies. I'm talking about breaks the GOVERNMENT gives like tax breaks and other incentives to MARRIED couples and then in the same breath says some people can't get married like it's any of their damn business. Keep in mind that for every tax break or incentive someone else has to pick up that slack because do you think the government will just require that much less money to operate? Nope. So if married couples get tax breaks that means that single people are having to pay more to make up for that 'discount' just like if incentives are given for children then those w/o children have to pay more to take up that slack as well. As a married man w/o children I tend to take offense when I see a single mother of three who gets to drive an Escalade and eat lobster on the government teat (read: you and me) all while saying she's 'Independent' and doesn't need anyone. In short, I don't care if people of a certain class would miss out on these breaks or not because it means that people from another class are paying for them.