Biden’s “Build Back Better” Plan Proposes To Increase Taxes On Marriages

As the American government continues to debate new spending packages as part of the “Build Back Better” initiatives, one of the proposals a part of this spending bill would increase penalties against marriages.

USA Today writes, ‘the deal proposed on Thursday by the Biden administration would do real harm to low-income couples, penalizing them for getting married relative to staying single or cohabiting’ – which, the outlet explicitly says these proposals are “not build back better.”

As it stands, lower-income and working class marriages receive fewer benefits compared to a couple that is cohabitating.

Biden’s plan would alter the earned income tax credit to add substantial penalties to marriages.

The Niskanen Center explains more about what this means:

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) contains a well-known marriage penalty, and it may be about to get significantly worse. Marriage penalties in the tax code arise when the combined value of tax credits and deductions for two single individuals arbitrarily drops when those same individuals marry and file taxes jointly. The EITC is a refundable credit for lower-income workers, so the marriage penalty in the program is particularly concerning given the growing educational and class divide in U.S. marriage rates.

Congressional Democrats’ reconciliation package proposes to make permanent the American Rescue Plan’s temporary expansion to the EITC for childless workers. This includes roughly tripling the maximum value of this credit while extending eligibility to adults aged 19 to 24. While these are both worthwhile reforms in the abstract, the expansion is poorly designed. It more than doubles the EITC’s marriage penalty for childless workers, giving eligible couples a compelling reason to avoid tying the knot. Under the proposal, getting married could result in EITC recipients losing access to nearly $2,500 in tax credits per year, which in some cases represents more than 10 percent of an eligible household’s annual income.

The chart below illustrates the maximum potential EITC benefit for two childless adults when they are single and when they are married for both the previous EITC structure and for the reconciliation proposal. The difference in height between the maximum EITC for married and single households indicates the size of the marriage penalty between the old childless EITC (orange vs. green) and what the reconciliation package proposes (purple vs. blue). In addition to being more severe, the marriage penalty in new EITC has broader eligibility by age and covers a wider earnings range, implying that a larger segment of working families would be affected.

Read more details about the proposals here:

Unfortunately, despite its original rollout as part of the ‘American Families Plan. The current draft of the reconciliation bill takes an existing marriage penalty in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and makes it significantly worse.

Mitt Romney, Senator from Utah, and 35 other senators wrote in a letter to Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer

The WinePress has noted in a couple of reports that marriage in America continues to rapidly fall, with divorces continually going higher, and more Christians and those who are ‘secular’ are increasingly cohabitating.

“Christian Cohabitation” Is Becoming The New Trend. Fornication Runs Rampant

Marriages Continue To Decline In America

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 4:1-3

Well, this is certainly a “great” way to reduce marriages some more. Most Americans are broke, and the strong majority of them have been turned into a pervert that equates lust and evil concupiscence with love. Slap on higher taxes, that’ll effectively prevent more marriages and bust up some more.

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This is just a proposal, but we shall what comes of it. Our so-called government are just well-dressed parasites who do not run anything: these bills are just formalities, played out by paid-off actors and puppets of lobbyists and bankers.

If you are a born again child of God – I am not referring to an unsaved man or woman out there – then a marriage is NOT a piece of paper authorized by the state. There are a lot of professing “Christians” that get really bent out of shape when I say that, but it’s the truth. A marriage is simply a man and a woman become one flesh when consummated in the marriage bed (1 Corinthians 6:13-18), with both families knowing the acts and intentions of the marriage (and usually done with a ceremony as a public show of that marriage, though not necessary (John 2:1-11)); all done in the sight of God. The government has no business interfering with your marriage.

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