PRO-MARRIAGE TAX REFORM?: David Blankenhorn

...Republican Party economic thinking is now generally dominated by supply-siders whose big ideas are cutting marginal rates, simplifying the code, and creating incentives to encourage more people to enter the labor force and work harder. And from their perspective, one important way to move toward these goals is to move toward a system of individual taxation – that is, taxing everyone as an individual as opposed to treating the family as a basic unit of taxation. But, we tried to show in this appeal from several years ago, this perspective is flagrantly anti-marriage.

The big question, then, is whether President Bush’s commission will contain only the usual-suspect, economic-growth-is-everything supply-siders, who ultimately just do not care about the mariage issue, or whether the commisison will also include a voice or two to stick up for marriage and parenthood. The U.S. tax code is by far the nation’s most influential family policy. Props to Maggie for raising this issue.

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