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We Need to Remove Tax Breaks for the Married

rigumagoo · 2010-10-17 02:11:05

We need to stop using tax incentives designed to encourage people to get married and create families. The Irish government has no place practicing such social engineering. This legislation is a vestige from the times when the church dictated our social policy to forward it's own goals. Marriage incentives have no economic…

17-10-2010 2:11am

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rigumagoo

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We need to stop using tax incentives designed to encourage people to get married and create families. The Irish government has no place practicing such social engineering. This legislation is a vestige from the times when the church dictated our social policy to forward it's own goals.
Marriage incentives have no economic benefit. In fact, they are damaging since individuals become less productive when they marry (and doubly so when they have children).
We fund a very expensive social practice that does nothing but play favouritism in attempting to dictate how individuals pursue their romantic lives. It costs the exchequer a fortune in lost revenue at a time when we are teetering on the brink of defaulting on our foreign debt and being sent back to the economic stone age.
We need to do away with this pointless and counter productive notion that the state should hold influence over our love lives.

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#2 17-10-2010 2:21am

gurramok

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What?? Where have you been?

The state gives countless incentives to couples by not getting married especially single mothers. Just look at the table of the financial incentives that they get. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66188084&postcount=337

News to you for the last few years is that its financially productive for couple not to get married now.

Marriage needs to be financially encouraged to help stamp out welfare fraud for a start.

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#3 17-10-2010 9:13am

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News for you OP children are the future tax payers.

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#4 17-10-2010 9:54am

Liam Byrne

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gandalf wrote: »

News for you OP children are the future tax payers.

It would seem that the ratio between the ones that are - compared to the ones that will be spongers forever - is being skewed.

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#5 17-10-2010 9:59am

Ddad

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As long as the OP has no plans for a pension or living beyond their productive age his plan is faultless.:rolleyes:

Oh and could you provide a reference for the loss of productivity among the married. Most of my married friends including those with children are at their career zeniths tbh.

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