Obama's Tax Plan: War on Married Women, or Just Pro-Single Mother?
Aug 14, 2008 12:09 PM EST
The New York Sun
makes an excellent point about Barack's tax plan.
Its alleged structure -- promising no tax increases to married people making less than $250k per year and single people making less than $200k per year -- means that a single woman making just slightly less than $200k per year won't experience a tax increase. But if that same woman marries (and is the second income in her household), she'll fork over 54% of what she makes to the government.
So which is it: Is Barack trying to discourage married women from working -- a policy that would entail screams of outrage if conservatives advocated it -- or is he trying to discourage women from marrying at all (thereby increasing the incidence of single motherhood)?
Wonder how the PUMA's feel about this one . . .
Carol Platt Liebau
Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political commentator and guest radio talk show host based near New York. Learn more about her new book, "Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Hurts Young Women (and America, Too!)"
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