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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Middle-class salary range
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.010531.18336@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Jul30.000951.2719@tandem.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:05:31 GMT
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- Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady) writes:
- :
- : About "uses things in common": When I lived with my girlfriend (now my wife)
- : we used things in common, but we weren't taxed for it. It seems like the
- : additional tax burden which punishes people for being thrifty. If roommates
- : can pool their resources (like college students or communes or best friends or
- : whatever) to save money without a tax bite, why can't married people? Or
- : should roommates be taxed like married people. That'll go down well.
-
- Should spouses be saddled with alimony payments if they get divorced? It is
- an unfair world whenever there is a graduated (so called progressive tax).
- I have always felt that a flat tax would be the most equitable - then it
- doesn't matter if you are married or not.
-
- : It'll be hard to convince me that I'm better off now (post marriage) - but you
- : can keep on trying! :-)
-
- I am sure that you are the only one who can decide that. There are advantages
- and disadvantages to being married. If you think the disadvantages are greater
- then you can always get divorced. :-)
-
- Bill
-