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It's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number 8779-737-9-7-3-7--4-25 should you wish to be on the program. I want to talk about one of my very good friends who's gay.

I think he's listening. He'll hear me say that. So I got a friend.

He will go nameless.

And if he's listening, he knows I'm talking about him right now.

He and his partner have been in a relationship for a good long while.

I distinctly say partner because they've never gotten married because the tax the

the tax liability would go up on them the marriage penalty there's still it it's

just mind-numbing to me that to this day in American tax policy there is still a

bit of a marriage penalty if you get married and financially it has worked out

for them to not get married.

And they, um, they're, they're fine.

And it's just, it's, it's funny to me that they are in a situation to make this

based on tax policy.

A lot of people are.

I know a heterosexual couple and they're kind of in the same.

They're both exceedingly wealthy in their own right. And they've been in a relationship now for they

were both married, got divorced. So now they're in a relationship and they just won't get married. They've both got a lot of money and they've run the numbers. It's not worth it for them to get married. They don't have kids together, but they've been, yes, you could call them dating. They've been living together now for probably 20 years. Don't have plans to separate. And it's just there's no reason. It's all tax policy.

Now, most people, however, do not assess tax policy when getting married. Most people get married

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