Pritzker ‘fair tax’ would hit over 4 million Illinoisans with marriage penalty, potentially give wealthy couples a marriage bonus – Illinois Policy Institute
Academic research on the marriage penalty has found that by punishing two-income households, this tax policy disproportionately harms the careers of married women and widens the gender pay gap.
That’s the problem with the trendy new term ‘equitable’, as in the ‘fair’ tax is ‘equitable’… the meaning is in the eye of the beholder, and equitable can mean whatever you want it to mean. Equal has a quantifiable meaning, equity is unequal with some pretty ridiculous justifications.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
So the Fair Tax is setup so that the lowest earners have a marriage penalty and millionaires have no marriage penalty? How stupid.
If Illinois pols designed a vehicle, it would have square wheels and would catch fire when shifted into drive.
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That’s the problem with the trendy new term ‘equitable’, as in the ‘fair’ tax is ‘equitable’… the meaning is in the eye of the beholder, and equitable can mean whatever you want it to mean. Equal has a quantifiable meaning, equity is unequal with some pretty ridiculous justifications.
Methinks that Orwell guy may have been onto something…