Comments on: 2011 may be a very taxing year for same-sex couples, regardless of marital status http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/04/08/2011-may-be-a-taxing-year-for-same-sex-couples/ the gay community's news source Thu, 23 May 2013 10:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Peter the saint http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/04/08/2011-may-be-a-taxing-year-for-same-sex-couples/#comment-1190 Peter the saint Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:02:57 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=5650#comment-1190 And Barney Frank is one of the leading figures of financial reform! Ha!! Sure – get LGBT officials elected and then evvvvverything will change for us. yeah right… the reason they won’t change this is because they cant tie it to benefiting the “religious orders” too… like Catania did with DC marriage, and Obama just did with the extreme-narrowly focused hospital visitation rights.

Why must our every step forward only be in association with a corresponding christ-ian benefit??????? Why is more discrimination like this built into every step towards non-discrimination????? They do it in the name of “balanced views” etc and it needs to stop. It’s making me very UNbalanced! haha

]]> By: Robert McJunkin http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/04/08/2011-may-be-a-taxing-year-for-same-sex-couples/#comment-1189 Robert McJunkin Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:24:08 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=5650#comment-1189 The burden on the survivor is especially onerous now that the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low. The federal estate tax will take most of my liquid assets, leaving my house and some savings accounts to provide for my partner’s support for the rest of his life. A straight married couple would not have to pay anything until the second spouse dies. One of my savings accounts has a balance of $27,000 and earned $11.00 last month.

This is a prime example of the discrimination endured by gay people.

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