Domestic Partner benefits are not something I receive, being single and all. It looks like when I am partnered and sharing benefits though, we may NOT be unequally taxed for those! I hear married people are already not taxed on their benefits, while unmarried people currently are. Thanks to local rep Jim McDermot, congress is considering fixing this separate and unequal taxation that has persisted for the 25 years domestic partnership benefits have been the bastard substitute of the right to marry. Exciting! I love saving money and this could save hundred to thousands of dollars!(First things first... benefits and a boyfriend)
As a quick aside, wasn't unequal taxation the original colonies reason for declaring independence from Great Briton? And wasn't "separate but equal" declared to be illegal for segregated schools? I look forward to marriage equality and neither separate nor unequal legal protection and taxation for gay men and women.
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I believe it was taxation without representation that was part of the reason for the split from Britain, but, you know... same diff. :-)
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