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Gerald Ford: “We do have a marriage bonus that is now for the upper income. The marriage bonus, you know, is quite lucrative. I have a…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
We do have a marriage bonus that is now for the upper income. The marriage bonus, you know, is quite lucrative. I have a bill to eliminate the marriage penalty also. So I am basically agreeing with what you are trying to do. But when I started developing this, I found out we had a marriage bonus. If we eliminate the marriage bonus, eliminate the marriage penalty, we will come out with a surplus of about $4 billion over the next 5 years. Is the Senator willing to do something along that line?
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan
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Discussing the implications of marriage bonuses and penalties on the budget.

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