@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
What expense you got to be kidding me! Let see SS benefits increase for one of the partners in many cases that will reduce the pool of funds for the rest of us.
Tax benefits that will increase the load on the rest of us.
Insurance benefits that will increase the cost of dong business and will be pass along to all of us in greater costs for goods.
And on and on.
Now what is wrong with all the above? Gay couples had not earn those benefits by doing as a class the hard job of raising the next genration that cost 100s of thousands of dollars for every middle class child raised to adulthood.
All of the above I had stated over and over on this thread.
So gay people don't deserve SS benefits? They pay into them already Bill. We're talking about making it transferable to a partner. Beyond that, the makeup of the gay relation ship is usually that both partners work, which would mean that a gay household would have two people paying into the pool. That's a larger contribution.
So gays people don't deserve insurance benefits being transfered over? A single gay person working for a company pays into a group plan that covers you and your wife.
So gay people don't deserve to file jointly on their taxes? How do you figure this? How are you fronting a bigger part of the bill now? Quite oppositely, gays are paying YOUR bill since the money they pay in taxes right now goes to fund things that they are denied.
This is exactly what I thought your answer might be: A poorly thought out rant about the inequity you perceive for yourself with zero context to reality.
Gays don't have prove anything to you. They don't even have to raise a single child (though many would love to in spite of state prohibitions). Marriage does not require you to have a single child, nor does the inability to have children prohibit your from marriage.
Let them marry. You can through your little fits about the expense you pay, but it's just you being dramatic. The truth is it doesn't effect you. You're being dramatic; you want this to be about you. It isn't.
Gays aren't asking for anything they don't deserve, and you aren't asked to give anything that you don't give to any other couple. You could start with privacy and consideration, even if you don't approve.
T
K
O
