Tax break for married couples?
So I'm to be punished for not marrying then?
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:33, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

And I'm not going to argue any more about the Conservatives because the shit will hit the fan soon enough.

( girlinthehole, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:34, Reply)

The shit has already hit the fan, been flicked over the entire room
and now we will be licking it up for the rest of ours lives.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:05, Reply)

I think the argument is that they're rewarded for being married.
Married couples are slightly cheaper for the government to "look after".
The idea that people should be encouraged to commit in that way by taxes strikes me as fundementally wrong.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:36, Reply)

Damn right it is.
Makes me seeth.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:38, Reply)

Not to be rude
but the tax break is not enough really to convince people marry for the sake of it. It does however provide an incentive to formalise a long term relationship. Can't see anything wrong with that
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:07, Reply)

People on an average income will get something like £3 a week
This is less about the money and more about promoting family values.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:09, Reply)

I can't really see that, that's a bad thing

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:11, Reply)

Not saying it is
It seems like a very minor point in the general scheme of things
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:14, Reply)

I'd agree
so I wonder why people are bitching about it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:18, Reply)

Well, because it's massively unfair is why.
Married? Have some money.
Gay and in a civil partnership? Fuck you. But don't fuck off to my B&B, you're not welcome there you deviants.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:23, Reply)

I'm not sure if the tax breaks apply to gay couples
but I'm pretty sure that it does actually. And the B&B issue has nothing to do with this discussion at all.

See NakedApes post below for why they're thinking of this taxbreak
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Yeah I don't think it discriminates against the gays
and it's more that people are fed up with single people being given tax breaks when you don't necessarily earn more as a couple.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:44, Reply)

It applies to any civil partnership/marriage
Not just heterosexuals.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Dont worry, they will be shit
a couple of hundred pounds a year better off at most
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:37, Reply)

It's the principle of the matter and not how much they'll be getting.

( girlinthehole, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:39, Reply)

I'm with you on that one.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 12 May 2010, 15:59, Reply)

I believe that the idea of promting a strong stable family is a good one
Difficult or unstable family backrounds can be a factor in many socio-econmic maladies that blight certain areas of the country. By promoting the idea of strong families, strong communities and stable safe places to live the conservatives are looking at long help with poverty, social injustice, social mobilty etc.

This is a change from simply throwing money at the problem and hoping it'll go away and if far more responsible and fair to the country. the other option is loads of investment for short term gains wherby the only real winners are the government who look better for re-election.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:19, Reply)

^ this
it takes guts to come out and say that you reckon a new direction is needed. Love them or loathe them the Conservatives are trying to change things
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:23, Reply)

A nude erection is needed?
(doesn't really work in writing, that one, does it?)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 12 May 2010, 16:42, Reply)

and as we all know
strong, stable families and marriage are synonymous...
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 12 May 2010, 16:29, Reply)

What an utter crock of cock.
How is this some great change? What do you think the working families tax credit was promoting? A tax break for being married is not targeted at the people whose relationships are most likely to be adversely affected by financial pressures. It is applied to the Queen in the same way as it is to an absentee father who has several children with different partners who decides to get married, as it is to those it may actually benefit. Being married is no gaurantee of discharging social rsponsibility.
(Cave Duck, Thu 13 May 2010, 0:01, Reply)