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'Gay Tax' Hurts Couples Tying the Knot

Federal inequality lands same-sex couples in the poor house

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted May 16, 2009 4:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – First comes love, then comes marriage, then the taxman, who penalizes same-sex couples with the “gay tax,” Nancy Goldstein writes on NPR. The media’s morality play about gay marriage has overshadowed the economic costs of inequality, argues Goldstein, who calculates her annual...   Read full story »

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