From Scotusblog today

[Captain Obvious]

If you are married you can only file Married filling jointly, or Married Filling Separately (serious raping on taxes this way). If you both file single you are committing tax fraud.

Married filing separately = single basically from a tax bracket standpoint, unless it changed which I don't think it has.

[Captain Obvious]

edit: and I could be wrong but I don't think. I'm a CPA but not a practitioner, I suck at taxes.

Great at CPE tax test taking though, but practice, nah. $#@! my taxes up every year.

[Peter1469]

Married filing separately = single basically from a tax bracket standpoint, unless it changed which I don't think it has.

It is different. As in ass rape range different for higher incomes. The only couple that I knew that did this outside of a contentious divorce situation was where one worked for a government agency in an unofficial capacity and she was a partner in a major law firm that wanted no controversy. I added the bold.

2014 Income Tax Brackets and Rates	Single Filers	Married Filing Jointly	Married Filing Separately
Rate	Taxable Income Range	Taxable Income Range	Taxable Income Range
10 percent	$0 to $9,075	$0 to $18,150	$0 to $9,075
15 percent	$9,076 to $36,900	$18,151 to $73,800	$9,076 to $36,900
25 percent	$36,901 to $89,350	$73,801 to $148,850	$36,901 to $74,425
28 percent	$89,351 to $186,350	$148,851 to $226,850	$74,426 to $113,425
33 percent	$186,351 to $405,100	$226,851 to $405,100	$113,426 to $202,550
35 percent	$405,101 to $406,750	$405,101 to $457,600	$202,551 to $228,800
39.5 percent	More than $406,750	More than $457,600	More than $228,800
Source: Internal Revenue Service

[Captain Obvious]

It is different. As in ass rape range different for higher incomes. The only couple that I knew that did this outside of a contentious divorce situation was where one worked for a government agency in an unofficial capacity and she was a partner in a major law firm that wanted no controversy. I added the bold.

2014 Income Tax Brackets and Rates	Single Filers	Married Filing Jointly	Married Filing Separately
Rate	Taxable Income Range	Taxable Income Range	Taxable Income Range
10 percent	$0 to $9,075	$0 to $18,150	$0 to $9,075
15 percent	$9,076 to $36,900	$18,151 to $73,800	$9,076 to $36,900
25 percent	$36,901 to $89,350	$73,801 to $148,850	$36,901 to $74,425
28 percent	$89,351 to $186,350	$148,851 to $226,850	$74,426 to $113,425
33 percent	$186,351 to $405,100	$226,851 to $405,100	$113,426 to $202,550
35 percent	$405,101 to $406,750	$405,101 to $457,600	$202,551 to $228,800
39.5 percent	More than $406,750	More than $457,600	More than $228,800
Source: Internal Revenue Service

Moral of the story - never ask me to do your taxes.

[Peter1469]

Moral of the story - never ask me to do your taxes.

Got it.

[PolWatch]

I think one of the issues was survivors benefits. If you are married and the higher income partner dies, the survivor can claim benefits off their income and receive more at retirement. In fact, you don't have to be legally married, you can draw under common law marriage rules. Gays could not do this without legal marriage rights.

There is also the SS disability issue. The disabled person can draw from the highest earner. I have a friend whose ex-husband is drawing disability based on her income. Again, gays can't draw from this without legal marriages.

[Common]

I think one of the issues was survivors benefits. If you are married and the higher income partner dies, the survivor can claim benefits off their income and receive more at retirement. In fact, you don't have to be legally married, you can draw under common law marriage rules. Gays could not do this without legal marriage rights.

There is also the SS disability issue. The disabled person can draw from the highest earner. I have a friend whose ex-husband is drawing disability based on her income. Again, gays can't draw from this without legal marriages.

If your spouse is on Disability SS when he dies the wife gets his SS based on what he would have gotten without disability. Disability SS only gets paid to the person disabled it is not passed on.

If your married 3 times all your wives are entitled to your SS as long as you were married to them long enough.

[The Sage of Main Street]

Just flat out weird.

If I wanted to $#@! more than one chic I would just shack up with them.

but then you wouldn't get a TV show

And Satan would take away Cap's typewriter.

[The Sage of Main Street]

What makes you think Roberts will be in dissent?

What about Clarence Thomas?