Thanks for highlighting the Couples Marriage TAX Advantage. Households next to each other have people who worked hard to live in the neighborhood. Certainly a household of 1 does not have expenses that are only half of a household of 2. Clearly the income of a couple wasn't earned any MORE desperately than the same income EARNED by the Single. Why are Singles targeted with the Singles Income Tax Penalty. The Singles Tax Penalty is egregious in the Standard deduction tax shelter of TWICE the money for couples living next door to Singles. The retirement condition of living on capital gains prescribes that a Single must live in shambles to get a 0% capital gain tax on under 40K adjusted. A couple can live nicely on 100K a year capital gains and subtract 24K$ standard deduction to get under 80K$ for 0% ZERO PERCENT capital gains tax. Singles who saved money to have 80K$ yearly in capital gains MUST be allowed to keep the same amount of the same type of income as the household next door. This sidebyside household comparison also creates treatment equity issues for the rescue checks that went out to married households but not to the Single who lives next door. Think how much lower the national debt would be on the couples' kids and grandkids if they paid the grandparents and parents paid the same taxes as the Single person next door.
