How will same-sex upl pare wh heterosexual upl weddg spendg? That's yet to be termed although already many stat that have approved gay marriage are anticipatg a new enomic wdfall over such ceremoni, U.S. News World Report said.
Contents:
- THE ST OF BEG GAY
- THE HIGH PRICE OF BEG A GAY COUPLE
- HOW MUCH DO A BIG SUPREME COURT SE LIKE GAY MARRIAGE ST?
THE ST OF BEG GAY
This is pecially te for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, who often rely on alternative paths, such as adoptn and surrogacy, to have children. Can Gay Coupl File Jot Tax? Do the IRS Regnize Gay Marriage?
The bate over gay marriage has long “foced on God and Scripture, the Constutn, and equal protectn, ” said Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber The New York Tim. Lookg at factors such as health surance, Social Secury, tax, and pensns, we lculated “a uple’s lifetime st of beg gay”— the bt se for our average gay uple, st $41, 196; the worst se, $467, 562. Fally, an analysis of the “fancial discrimatn” we gay upl face, said Andrew Sullivan The Atlantic.
” Bis, sce the ernment’s anti-gay-marriage polici “enurage gay people not to form stable, lastg relatnships, ” they also have a big societal st. “I’ve always supported gay marriage myself, ” said Wisns law profsor Ann Althoe her blog, but the Tim’ analysis mers some skepticism.
THE HIGH PRICE OF BEG A GAY COUPLE
Their average uple earns $140, 000 a year, and their analysis really appli to all unmarried upl, not jt gay upl. “Sgl are shortchanged” all the same ways that gay upl are, but they also subsidize the “perks” enjoyed by all upl, gay or straight: club memberships, vatn packag, r surance, to name a few. Much of the bate over legalizg gay marriage has foced on God and Scripture, the Constutn and equal protectn.
And for years, we’ve heard om gay upl about all the extra health, legal and other sts they bear. So we set out to terme what they were and to e up wh a round number a uple’s lifetime st of beg gay. We looked at benefs that routely go to married heterosexual upl but not to gay upl, like certa Social Secury payments.
Even tax preparatn n st more, sce gay upl have to file two sets of returns. Our goal was to create a hypothetil gay uple whose suatn would be siar to a heterosexual uple’s.
HOW MUCH DO A BIG SUPREME COURT SE LIKE GAY MARRIAGE ST?
We also nsired the tax the three stat that have the hight timated gay populatns New York, California and Florida.
In our worst se, the uple’s lifetime st of beg gay was $467, 562. Gay upl earng, say, $80, 000, uld have health surance sts siar to our hypothetil higher-earng uple, but they might well owe more e tax than their heterosexual unterparts. For wealthy upl wh a lot of assets, on the other hand, the st of beg gay uld easily spiral to the lns.
Nearly all the extra sts that gay upl face would be erased if the feral ernment legalized same-sex marriage. One exceptn is the st of havg blogil children, but we felt was appropriate to clu this given our goal of outlg every st gay upl cur that heterosexual upl may not.