Submitted by Carmi, Aug 28, 2008 11:44

Your entire argument is predicated on the sexist argument that women should stop working before men in the case of a marriage tax increase. Senator Obama does not believe this, and your attempts to ascribe some sort of sexism to his actions are unfounded. Furthermore, a married couple making over $200,000 dollars a year should end up paying more in taxes. Any couple making more than that amount of money is relatively well-off; there are people in this country doing significantly worse who are footing the bill for the current Bush tax cuts. And what's more, those tax cuts, by your own paper's admission today, are not "paying for themselves." Our debt and deficits continue to grow (and will have to be answered for by future generations), and these tax cuts were unable to keep us out of our current economic downturn. Yes, there is a possibility that some women (those in households making over $200,000) will decide not to work in the wake of Obama's marriage tax plan. But further equal pay for equal work legislation (which McCain voted against, and which Obama has pushed for) would eliminate the unintended gender bias in Obama's proposal. But I suppose speaking about that wouldn't help with your agenda.

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