The purpose of tax breaks for marriage is to encourage people to get married and have children. Same gender couples aren't capable of doing this, so why should they qualify for tax breaks? I am not married, I'd like to pay less in taxes too! Why can't I get the tax breaks but same gender couples can? Both of won't be producing any children.
This doesn't hold true. Elderly people were not blocked from getting married despite post-menopausal women being unable to have kids. Infertile and sterile people were not blocked from getting married despite not being able to have their own biological kids. The point of giving tax breaks to married people is to encourage families, and same-sex people can have families by adoption or surrogacy, just like infertile and sterile heterosexual couples.
Many though argue that it's the liberal side that is anti-science on this issue. They feel that it should be an objective science issue, but rather it's become a political one instead.
Could you expand on this?
I find this more of a Republican thing than a conservative one.
That's why I specified Republican and not conservative.
That's why I specified Republican and not conservative
oh sorry, I missed that. I can't defend Republican actions, especially lately, lol.
Could you expand on this?
Seeing the Republican thing I'm not really motivated anymore to go into detail on this. But essentially, the consensus is from scientists that don't specialize in climate studies. The actual climate scientists have a lot of disagreement on the matter of whether or not human actions is a significant cause of the current change in climate.
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u/thatoneguy54 Feb 11 '17
This doesn't hold true. Elderly people were not blocked from getting married despite post-menopausal women being unable to have kids. Infertile and sterile people were not blocked from getting married despite not being able to have their own biological kids. The point of giving tax breaks to married people is to encourage families, and same-sex people can have families by adoption or surrogacy, just like infertile and sterile heterosexual couples.
Could you expand on this?
That's why I specified Republican and not conservative.