Blogs Nov 11, 2010 at 3:47 pm

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Dignity as human beings...
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Ok, I teared up at the line "it has to do with our dignity, altogether. . .".

I'm lucky enough to be married myself, and it is, indeed, different than what came before in some hard-to-define way.
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Sigh...

I'm not that old yet. But I am old enough, and my partner and I have been together long enough, that I can see this kind of thing coming for us. It's a ways off yet (hopefully), but coming nevertheless.

We don't talk about it much here on SLOG, but elder issues are a real problem for gays. When a partner dies, and the surviving partner gets too old, and they have no family to take care of them, the surviving partner often ends up going back into the closet just to survive in a nursing home.
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All my best to you Edie. No one should have to go through this. No one.
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Ugh. The Republicans call it a "death tax." We need to publicize the "gay tax" more. Maybe the Republicans will finally come around if we use the only words they seem to understand.
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My freshman year college roommate, a great person I still consider one of my best friends after two decades, just celebrated his 8th anniversary with his partner, a wonderful man whose been, IMO, a gentle and steadying influence in his life.

New York still has not legalized gay marriage, and my friend once said that he may not choose to marry if/when that changes. But I want him to have the right to do so. His relationship has been just about the most stable and loving of anyone I know. Of all my straight married couple friends, only one has been together longer.
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Time to renew my ACLU membership.
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Glad to see that you posted this.
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Taxes?!

The "heatrbreak" is because she had to pay her fucking TAXES?

that's precious...

doesn't she know it's her FUCKING PATRIOTIC DUTY to pay a SHITLOAD OF TAXES?

this makes our day-
it's so nice to see the Democrap Tax Burden bite a hunk out of the ass of a good homoliberal.
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In regards to the earlier post about HRC: I just wanted Dan to know that he is directly responsible for me switching my financial support last year from HRC to the ACLU & Lambda Legal. I do a monthly-donation thing. This straight gal appreciates the education on which organizations are worth my dollars. This video makes me feel extra-good about supporting the ACLU.
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we'll NEVER balance the budget if we don't tax the shit out of these spoiled DINK homos.....
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That is the most beautiful thing I've seen in quite some time. Thank you very much.
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No transcript, but the gist of it here: Edie Windsor and the ACLU Challenge the …

And here: Windsor v. United States

I would so love to see that blow DOMA up.

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So.... although I think it stinks they don't get the benefit of being married for inheritance tax purposes.... just to be clear... Thea must have had NET assets greater than 3.5 million dollars before she would pay inheritance tax. Net means after deducting any loans owed.

In terms of having "money problems" -- I don't know what that means under these circumstances. $3.5 million is a lot of assets!

And it sucks that they didn't get the protection afforded married couples.
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Actually baseboards, the total taxable estate would be around a million and a quarter or so dollars (depending upon which year she died in), not a particularly high number if you have a decent life insurance policy and/or NY real estate.
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She died in 2009. So 3.5 million.

I'm talking federal estate tax -- I forgot about NY. She probably did get hosed on the state level....
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yeah

Democrap Cesspools like NY and California hose their citizens with tyrannical oppressive tax rates.
Did you girls know San Francisco is the worst run city in America?
Your fuzzy socialist homoliberal theories put into action, with disastrous results....
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The timing on this really is so precious.
At the same time that Liberals are hectoring Real Americans that it is their Sacred Patriotic Duty to pay more taxes to finance Democrap deficit spending the ACLU comes along whining because millionaire Homosexuals have to pay taxes?

It's sooooo HEARTBREAKING!.......

*SOB!!*

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@17-18: I have no problem with paying taxes. Hell, I make next to nothing (poor college student), and still about 15-25% of my paycheck is withheld for taxes.
I do have a problem with people having to pay more taxes because of who they are. If I had to pay an extra 3% because I was Jewish, I'd be ready to break some people's fingers.
Gays are barred from taking advantage of the tax breaks that come with marriage, an inconvenience that straight people are not subjected to.
(Also, the Democrats are really only pushing to raise taxes on the rich. Glad to see you consider the Wall Street fat cats to be Real America.)
(Also, the last time we were afraid to deficit spend in a depression, that depression lasted a whole decade. And we called it the Great Depression. Learn2Econ.)
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Very sad. It reminds me of Joyce and Sybil Burden. They are sisters who joint-own a small farm in England. When one of them dies the survivor will be forced to sell up move out of their family home because of inheritance tax. They are appealing to the European court of human rights saying that siblings should be allowed a civil partnership which would exempt them from the tax.
Obviously they do not have a romantic relationship, but they have made the decision to be life partners. Their situation has made me believe that civil partnerships is not just a gay issue; it about treating your citizens (or subjects in the Burnden's case) with the fairness they deserve.

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@20: Brits are citizens. It's a constitutional monarchy. They pay taxes to the House of Parliament, not the throne. Just like Canada, Australia et al.
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HEARTBREAKING....

*SOB!*

(we still can't get over the injustice of millionaire homosexuals having to pay taxes.....)

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