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Mark Neumann: The marriage tax penalty is one of those commonsense issues in this country that makes people so angry out there in…

On the recordJune 3, 1998
The marriage tax penalty is one of those commonsense issues in this country that makes people so angry out there in America. It is one of those issues, when you go to people and say, did you know that if four people work at the same job, they earn exactly the same money, and two of them are married to each other and two are living together, that the two that are living together pay less taxes than the two that are married to each other? People just go, why would we do that? What kind of government would allow that to happen? It is a commonsense kind of thing.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing the marriage tax penalty and its implications during a speech on the House floor.

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