Re: marriage penalty

[Kelley]

>what do pen-l's tax wonks think of the alleged "marriage penalty" of the US 
>tax system? (Forget the GOP plan. It won't go anywhere.)


I'd be interested to know the income brackets that are getting nailed.  I
know that if you're low income and collecting the earned income tax credit
getting married is a penalty -- which is the irony since they supposedly
want to encourage the heathen poor to shack up legally.

kelley