We should end the legal institution of marriage. It literally only provides two benefits: you can pool income for tax purposes, and you can share health insurance. Both of those items could easily be addressed without marriage, especially if we had universal healthcare or if you could add a partner to your health insurance like you can with car insurance.
Meanwhile, marriage in it’s current form means that the state decides how much of your retirement savings you get to keep when your partner decides to leave you or you decide to leave your partner. It’s the worst financial decision that it is possible to make to ever marry someone outside of your class because of that risk, and that risk sucks the joy and romance out of the whole thing.
If you want to have a fairy tale wedding or an important religious ceremony, go for it, but there is zero reason to get the government involved at all anymore.
We should end the legal institution of marriage. It literally only provides two benefits: you can pool income for tax purposes, and you can share health insurance. Both of those items could easily be addressed without marriage, especially if we had universal healthcare or if you could add a partner to your health insurance like you can with car insurance.
Meanwhile, marriage in it’s current form means that the state decides how much of your retirement savings you get to keep when your partner decides to leave you or you decide to leave your partner. It’s the worst financial decision that it is possible to make to ever marry someone outside of your class because of that risk, and that risk sucks the joy and romance out of the whole thing.
If you want to have a fairy tale wedding or an important religious ceremony, go for it, but there is zero reason to get the government involved at all anymore.
That’s not true. There are plenty of other legal rights marriage conveys such as power of attorney and child custody.
You can also sponsor for immigration.
Imagine all of the right wingers who will take that talking point and run with it to justify banning gay marriage.
“Well, y’all don’t even think marriage should be a fuckin’ institution so why should you be allowed to do it? Hyuck hyuck hyuck”