Fight the Culture Wars — Get Married!
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82 responses to “Fight the Culture Wars — Get Married!”
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Don’t get married. Find a woman who can’t stand you and buy her a house.
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That was a Rod Stewart line wasn't it?
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Don't be a childless cat lady? I guess you could marry and still fit that description….
Going through a surgical recovery period that would be unthinkable without the love of my life. No need to sell me on the value of a committed life partner. I owe her bigly again.
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The cat lady pejorative generator (current Republican VP candidate) also says that childless people should pay more taxes than those with children…. of course they already do… but he means a higher tax rate.. as a punishment…
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As an inducement, certainly…Hey, plenty of reason to resent those we once called DINKS.
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Interesting that Eric believes a higher tax rate is a punishment!
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Pretty clear that JD does (and that is all I said)…. do you…?
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I regard my yearly struggle with Turbotax as some sort of preview of Hell! Some wise fellow said “a fine is a tax for doing wrong and a tax is fine for doing well”. To the extent that government uses taxes to shape behavior rather than merely raise revenue, I would say higher tax rates can be punitive.
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Pretty sure JD agrees with you. So really the question then is why does JD feel that childless couples should be punished…? I assume you don’t agree with him in this case…
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I am inclined toward lower, flatter rate with no exemptions.
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I prefer the same except I like progressive tax rates.
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I am willing to accept a progression of say 8%, 15%, and 18% with no exceptions in exchange for a greatly simplified tax code and a much smaller and less intrusive IRS. Note I will throw in a national sales tax to make up the difference.
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I'd be happy with an IRS that can process a deceased person's tax return in less than the approximately 16 months they've taken so far.
At one point in this seemingly never ending saga of government incompetence, they claimed that the taxpayer was deceased BEFORE the tax year started and could not, therefore, process the return.
Perhaps not coincidentally, a substantial refund is due on this tax return.
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I'd be happy with an IRS that can process a deceased person's tax return in less than the approximately 16 months they've taken so far.
At one point in this seemingly never ending saga of government incompetence, they claimed that the taxpayer was deceased BEFORE the tax year started and could not, therefore, process the return.
Perhaps not coincidentally, a substantial refund is due on this tax return.
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I'd be happy with an IRS that can process a deceased person's tax return in less than the approximately 16 months they've taken so far.
At one point in this seemingly never ending saga of government incompetence, they claimed that the taxpayer was deceased BEFORE the tax year started and could not, therefore, process the return.
Perhaps not coincidentally, a substantial refund is due on this tax return.
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I'd be happy with an IRS that can process a deceased person's tax return in less than the approximately 16 months they've taken so far.
At one point in this seemingly never ending saga of government incompetence, they claimed that the taxpayer was deceased BEFORE the tax year started and could not, therefore, process the return.
Perhaps not coincidentally, a substantial refund is due on this tax return.
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OTOH, those that think tax returns ought to be simple, are not dealing with reality very well.
AND.. there are LOTS of tax benefits for those that have kids – no matter their marital status.
Beyond that super low tax rates for some investment income as well as inherited property and funds.
And yep, dealing with a deceased parents tax return is no fun. Once Social Security gets the death notice, things start moving and not in a good way sometimes.
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Oddly enough, Virginia processed the tax returns with no problem. I was even able to fax them the documents they needed after I spoke with someone at the Dept of Taxation to find out how much he’d paid in estimated taxes, and, if I’m remembering right, I was able to call them to confirm that they got those documents.
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I can be harder with the Federal .. we just went through that with my wife’s father. Still dealing with inherited IRAs with new/different rules…
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You can’t even call anyone at the IRS. The recording just tells you to call back tomorrow.
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yep. They don’t want to hear from you. Just read their letters and freak out.
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My sister-in-law lost her husband suddenly about a year ago and was facing similar issues. She called Kaine’s office and they jump in and straightened things out very quickly. If you haven’t, give that a try.
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I’ve been emailing back and forth with Wexton’s office over this for close to a year.
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Explain to me how anything Congress does has anything to do with an IRS employee who made a mistake?
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being able to get in touch with them. Their funding for customer service got cut. You could always engage a CPA or enrolled agent and make some progress on that side, I bet. Not unsympathetic… you gotta do what you
gotta do but gotta do the options that are available. We’ve been able to get in touch in Fredericksburg. -
Wouldn’t need to get in touch with them if they could do the job accurately?
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Are you with a CPA or Enrolled Agent?
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I had a CPA do the taxes. There was nothing wrong with them. This is entirely something on the IRS side, probably because their 1960s-era mainframe blew a vacuum tube.
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okay. We had some back and forth also on deceased father-in-law estate.
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Senators tend to have more influence and Kaine’s office has built a reputation in responding to these sort of things effectively. He is also up for reelection so they may be extra helpful these days.
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I’ll consider it, if I can’t get a resolution soon.
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I would second that
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Yes, something like that would be sensible (my progressive rates might be more aggressive but that is the stuff of negotiations). Also treat all income equally regardless of source.
Nope, but nice try… he said “Let's tax the things that are bad…”. Are DINKS (to use your antiquated pejorative) “bad” people? Should they be punished for perhaps being infertile? Are we only going to force those who choose to not have kids to pay more taxes? How will we decide who are the “bad” ones? More Conservative intervention into the doctor/patient relationship? Maybe we can issue different colored stars to easily differentiate the childless…
Come on, get with it… as JAB says “fight the culture wars”… fight them to win at all costs…
The UVA professor was proposing higher taxes to fund earned income tax credit and an expansion of Medicaid. Of course, most conservatives want to eliminate medicaid in order to balance the budget.
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About 50% of all births in the US are paid for by Medicaid and about 50% of all kids in the US are insured by Medicaid.
What percentage of the kids who receive Medicaid are in two-parent families, I don't know but do Conservatives and Project 2025 want to deny Medicaid to kids whose parents are not married?
Married men live longer. Seemingly.
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My dad lived to 81. Spent about the last 30 years of it alone. What killed him was COPD from a smoking habit he kicked a couple years before the divorce.
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My dad lived to 81. Spent about the last 30 years of it alone. What killed him was COPD from a smoking habit he kicked a couple years before the divorce.
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My dad lived to 81. Spent about the last 30 years of it alone. What killed him was COPD from a smoking habit he kicked a couple years before the divorce.
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My dad lived to 81. Spent about the last 30 years of it alone. What killed him was COPD from a smoking habit he kicked a couple years before the divorce.
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I won't give you platitudes but 81 is longer than many and living longer in bad health in a double-edged sword.
We all die but most never accept that reality until the end.
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I just wonder how much longer he’d lived if he hadn’t made Virginia tobacco farmers richer.
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You never know. At that age, all kinds of things can happen – just stuff wearing out and other stuff that was not totally good to start with.
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Picked it up again after the divorce?
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No, actually. Seems the damage was done by the time he quit smoking. It just took roughly 28 years for it to get bad enough that he needed oxygen.
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Wow. That’s unusual. The effects are “usually” reversed after 5 years, but it’s cumulative with other environmental factors, and I suppose, genetics.
I regret having been an on-again, off-again smoker if nothing else for its demonstrated lack of discipline.
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Guy down the street like that. Quit years ago, 20 I think and still has COPD now.
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What’s the number? Seven? Seven major systems that can suffer breakdown. Obviously, the numero uno is the heart, but Dick Cheney is proof that you don’t need one. Next is the brain, and well, there’s Trump. Political jokes aside, the lungs are under assault from both industrial and natural sources, and adding tobacco is a hard hit. Not clear that our fully contained housing doesn’t contribute too. Growing up, the windows were wide open at least 5 months. Now? Well, the air is “filtered”, but…. “Studies needed”
Modern times. Now some studies are indicating that acetaminophen, like alcohol, damages the liver at any dose. #4.
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so many factors including genetic… the primary thing you can count on is that you WILL die and living longer with many infirmities is not such a deal wither
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Wait? What? I will? Who says?
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I never started smoking. My grandmother died of lung cancer…2 weeks before I was born. Dad’s side.
Get married..and hope you don't end up divorced and broke.
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no risk, no reward.
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But one of the ways to manage risks is marry later, have fewer children, assortatively mate, and divorce quicker.
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Hopefully, marrying later would reduce the divorce rate.
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It does but one must also be willing to bail out before having children, building up too many assets, or personal danger.
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Since we have spent the last 20 years or so redefining marriage perhaps every marriage license should include a menu of pre nups including a sunset clause.
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Since we have spent the last 20 years or so redefining marriage perhaps every marriage license should include a menu of pre nups including a sunset clause.
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"Hope" is not a strategy
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It is to the women who marry Republicans.
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Oh, they get "converted" !
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Or dead from a fixable complicated pregnancy. Blue State Women Survive!
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or dead from the complications of pregnancy.
Sure, good marriages come with built-in social and emotional support; financial stability with dual incomes and/or shared expenses, and encouragement for healthier behaviors.
But those outcomes depend on quality of marriage. I'd also be interested to see how the author accounts for selection bias (healthier, wealthier, and happier individuals may be more likely to get married in the first place, which can skew the data).
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Then listen to it and read the book…
All that touched in the discussion.
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That is exactly what he says. Look at the four groups that get married most often. Of course, the speaker goes not mention risk, assortative mating, diversity, or the multitude of issues with boys and young men.
I read the New York Times so I can keep up with what the opposition is thinking.
One slow day I read their column on personal advice on marriage and dating…..Then I made a mistake of reading the "comments". I never realized how many neurotic, man-hating women there were in the Western Hemisphere.
Thank you Jesus for leading me to the right decision 58 years ago.
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The NYT is not YOUR opposition.
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And this is why so many men are single and typing on the internet all day long with other men. Weirdos.
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The value of the learner’s permit is indispensable to the successful licensing process.
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so they say…
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I've been married 3 times. I'm pretty sure it has not made me wealthier, but it has made me wiser. Wish I'd run into the 3rd one first, or maybe the first two were just for practice.
Get married they said. It’ll be great, they said. They being…men. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/07/25/ballerina-farm-controversy-times-profile-hannah-david-neeleman-airline-fortune-epidural-trad-wife-tiktok/
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Fevered dreams for men. Nightmares for women. The jerk’s wife wanted a trip to Greece. He bought her an egg apron and filmed her reaction. Sicko. https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/my-day-with-the-trad-wife-queen-and-what-i-really-thought-of-her-qmbmmhkp8
Lines up nicely with every other ‘trad family’ hero… Duggar, Bates, Falwell, Jeub.
Just another institution ruined by degenerate, hedonistic boomers
Well, here we go again . . . rightwingers sticking their noses into other people's business.
A person's decision to marry or not marry is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
A woman's decision to have an abortion is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
An individual's decision to use or not use contraceptive practices is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
BUTT OUT.
A "DEI hire"?? Does that stand for Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka?
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