The US government should remove some of the benefits attached to marriage and give them to those who need them the most Marriage can help reduce economic inequality when it serves as a vehicle for people to cross class boundaries. But if wealth marries wealth,as it often does, it serves as a mechanism to build up capital and redistribute it upward. That’s just one reason why the state subsidization of marriage in the United States makes so microscopic sense.
Conservatives often say that married couples and their children fare better than their counterparts in a variety of measures – and thus the US government should continue to promote marriage. As Senator Marco Rubio set it, and marriage is the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty”.
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Source: theguardian.com