> First of all, do you think anyone would actually /admit/ to being married if it meant they had to pay /more/ taxes? People who get married do so in two senses -- a religious sense, from which the "meaning" of marriage is derived, and a legal sense, from which the state benefits are derived. That's stuff like not having to make out a will to your spouse and, yes, being able to file taxes differently. It's possible for two people to be married in a religious sense without being married in a legal sense -- this is that state in which gay marriages (true ones, anyway) exist if gay marriage is not recognized by the state. But that's a different issue and I don't want to talk about it here. If /not/ being married /saved/ people money, then I think a lot less people would be married, at least on paper.

Who's to say that isn't already happening? Frankly, I think it is.

I abstain from the rest of this thread except to say that the portion of my taxes that goes to the education of America's children is probably the one tax I don't resent paying at all.