We Need to Remove Tax Breaks for the Married

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.