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DOMA Decision May Affect Civil Unions

DOMA Decision May Affect Civil Unions

The assumption is that the Windsor decision only applies to same-sex couples who are married, not couples who are in civil unions.  There is, however, at least a hint that this might not be the case.  In 2011, the IRS responded to a letter asking for advice on the filing status of an opposite sex couple that were united in a civil union. 

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DOMA Unconstitutional – Scalia Unhappy – Let’s Get Practical

DOMA Unconstitutional – Scalia Unhappy – Let’s Get Practical

DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages. It contrives to deprive some couples married under the laws of their State, but not others, of both rights and responsibilities, creating two contradictory marriage regimes within the same State. It also forces same-sex couples to live as married for the purpose of state law but unmarried for the purpose of federal law, thus diminishing the stability and predictability of basic personal relations the State has found it proper to acknowledge and protect.

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Tea Party Patriots Do Some Splainin

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Enrolled Agents Deserve More Respect

Enrolled Agents Deserve More Respect

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Day 46 Of Tea Party Patriots Scandal

Hi.  This is Brenda calling with an action alert from the Tea Party Patriots.   Well Larry, I know you are busy so I will get right to the point.  This election is our last chance to stop Obamacare and stop our country from becoming a cradle-to-grave welfare state.  Right now wear just $50,000 short of the amount we need to finish our door-to-door voter outreach and carry out our plan to stop left-wing voter fraud.

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Tea Party Patriots — Federalist Papers — Really ?

A nation cannot long exist without revenues. Destitute of this essential support, it must resign its independence, and sink into the degraded condition of a province. This is an extremity to which no government will of choice accede. Revenue, therefore, must be had at all events.

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Tea Party Patriots, Inc.–Movement Or Money Machine?

Hi.  This is Brenda calling with an action alert from the Tea Party Patriots.   Well Larry, I know you are busy so I will get right to the point.  This election is our last chance to stop Obamacare and stop our country from becoming a cradle-to-grave welfare state.  Right now we are just $50,000 short of the amount we need to finish our door-to-door voter outreach and carry out our plan to stop left-wing voter fraud.

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Tax Court Dusts Off Crane Decision

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t hinted that maybe, just maybe, there was a way out of a burned out tax shelter besides dying or giving it to your spouse and getting a divorce.  Those hopes were dashed by the Tufts decision in 1983.  So poor Ms. Malonzo was at least three decades late with her argument.  Still I’m glad she took the case up, reading about the Crane decision makes me feel young again.

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