The Lame "Legal, Tax, or Financial" Benefits to Marriage

[@marcuspvo5280]

You know the argument is over when you have to bring up taxes and insurance 🤣.

[@zebageba]

Yep, it's over when you ask her to move out.

[@sorryociffer]

The cost of the wedding that she will demand will take 25-30 years of the “marriage savings” to recoup….

[@masterblaster1502]

Imagine paying 30-50k on a 1 afternoon party where a fraud wears white and a buffoon signs his rights away.

[@chuckchan4127]

If she won't negotiate making the wedding affordable, she's not wife material.

[@masterblaster1502]

@@chuckchan4127 If she insists on western "marriage" (male submission, emasculation, humiliation and usury) then she already isn't interested in the man's well-being.

[@sorryociffer]

@ if she needs more than immediate family and friends and a nice dinner out for everyone, she’s not the one. Even then, you’re a damned fool for getting married.

[@thedarkwolf9423]

"But you get a tax deduction" .... I'd rather save the money I make rather than have someone who thinks her job is to spend it all, than to have a small decrease in what the government takes from me. "But what about your final moments?" I left instructions with my favorite neice not to allow my family to follow their horrible tradition of gathering around my hospital bed and staring silently at me like a flock of vultures. Preferably, I'd have just enough strength to walk off alone into the wilderness, instead.

[@Bruno-u6f]

just the housing costs of needing the space for 1 rather than 2 is already more than the tax deduction, if you add the living costs is insane

[@khronosreisender4738]

It’s not even a true decrease in taxes, it’s still the same amount that you get per person

[@steveinskeep4964]

marriage conjoined with life insurance: NEVER invest in a liability that recognises you're worth more dead than alive.

[@cniht]

The only reason to get married today is children, and the family court system has just about eviscerated father's parental rights anyway. Although some states are slowly, very slowly, correcting issues. It's always too little and always too late.

[@MauriceB-zn5pv]

Why do children need their parents to be married? Why is that a given?

[@user-yk4gd1fl4z]

Why would you want children ?!

[@Tit4Tat92]

A man can have kids without signing that paperwork he can even have a long term relationship without signing a marriage license

[@imagoodlistener2730]

Sing it. It's too ooo lllllaaaaattttteeeee! WHOA AWHOA

[@Montanafarmguy]

YEP, I had to learn this one the hard way. Even if you're not married to your child's mother, family court will still devastate you financially and emotionally and hand you an 18 year sentence of total ruin, for the crime of wanting to be a good father.

[@idrathernot_2]

If it doesn't result in a 100% increase in net worth pluss the equivalent offset in lawyers fees, alimony, child support and your therapy / alcohol afterwards it's not even financially mathematically equivalent.

[@Doomguy289]

someone at work called me selfish for not wanting kids or marriage. I said I know and smiled. watching their moronic face be shocked was kind of amusing.

[@masterblaster1502]

A programmed npc peon was shocked. Fantastic.

[@mister-zen8491]

Hey, it's your body and your choice! 😆

[@Doomguy289]

@@masterblaster1502 well see the sad thing is, alot of immigrants from third world countries are still obsessed with the idea of marriage. they are beyond oblivious to it, as are their parents.their parents blindfold them then toss them out into the minefield. granted a lot of times they avoid the mines by getting lucky and marrying someone of their background who also just moved to the west in recent years. thus the shock and horror ppl of not doing it.

[@Meton2526]

@@Doomguy289 What is an alot?

[@cruiser6260]

​@@Meton2526'alot' is a verb not a noun. To alot

[@GigaChad_169]

I was married, it is overrated considering the downside risks. Especially these days. Maybe if you’re explicitly intending on raising children, it makes sense legally. But the no fault divorce laws pull the rug out from under the entire institution.

[@Autonomous15]

and how do the religious deal with the whole sin part of divorce?

[@stephenshelton4267]

By recognizing that marriage has no value and not getting yourself caught up in one.

[@MauriceB-zn5pv]

@@Autonomous15They ignore it. “Religion” is a framework people use to justify what they already believe. All you have to do is look at the sins people take serious and the ones they don’t.

[@commonsense3921]

You guys confuse me when you bash the no fault divorce, I’m sorry I don’t want anybody forced to stay with me or vice versa if it’s not working out.

[@SGT676]

​@commonsense3921 Issue with not fault divorce is that the woman can literally leave you out of the blue for no reason other than her being bored and you still have to pay her alimony

[@user-yk4gd1fl4z]

Someone needs to do a run of t shirts. Just a picture of Cappy’s head with the quote “shut the fuck up!” I’d buy one.

[@thedreaddeaddunderdino6709]

A legal, financial and spiritual apocalypse

[@CaptainCoook]

Marriage is a religious ritual, get the government out of your bed. If she won't marry you exclusively before God she isn't a believer since she can't accept God as her sovereign - then depart from her. If she wants to involve the government in a religious ritual then government is her god, she isn't a believer.

[@WarbirdPhoenix]

Tax deductions = Savings with government involment No thanks. I'm good.

[@Wet_Willys_Wetter_Water]

Women - *flicking their beans at the idea of marrying a guy and him either dying or divorcing him* Aaron - "But remember, and this is SUPER imprtant to remember..... Technically, they dont hate you"

[@Deltacaptain1980]

The more you make, the more you save, the more you build, the longer you are together.............the more you lose when things blow up. If you find yourself digging a hole deeper, stop digging...

[@christopherhennessey8991]

I’m happily divorced .I actually hated being married. My daughters were the only good things that came out of the two marriages. I learned my lesson. I have a sibling who’s on her fourth marriage ,she’s obviously out of her mind . In my observations, along with my male friends, us guys are much happier single.

[@palegangsta]

You aren‘t too bright for falling for it a second time either and your female relative probably doesn‘t have much too lose and more to gain by being divorced so it makes sense that she got divorced 3-4 times already if she gets half of the man‘s wealth (they probably had more to lose than her every single time I assume since women date up most of the time).

[@tgar6663]

She's out of her mind ? She's winning her 4th husband is out of his mind lol

[@minecraft991115]

So, you take the cost of the average marriage ceremony and then you take the interest of that at 4% a year and see if you will ever break even. you will not.

[@miamiyeah]

0:35 best Aaron song

[@mikeb8720]

One thing crappy missed on the mortgage side: if she has bad credit when you get married (which most women do because they cannot manage their spending) then you won’t be able to use her income when applying for a mortgage. If you need her income to apply for a McMansion, then her bad credit will bring your score down and you will have to pay more in interest because your loan is more risky. Another reason to never get married as a man.

[@Captain_Jack711]

Yup, 100%

[@iknothatukno]

No reason to do it unless you find a unicorn who remembers there's more to marriage than just benefits and also remembers it's constant work.

[@TheY2AProblem]

In an ideal world… AN IDEAL WORLD… the person you marry is supposed to be a friend with exclusive benefits.

[@joebloggs339]

The fact that the phrase 'starter-marriage' exists is reason enough to not get married

[@waynecampbell9208]

Love's sure is a joke alright!....😂....I believe it's safe to say I'll be a forever bachelor!....😂

[@michaelpriest0]

Health insurance, and, to a degree health care depend on men getting married. Men don't go see a doctor. They walk it off.

[@stephenshelton4267]

On the other hand single men dont have a wife nagging at them to stay home, so they can go to the gym and enjoy other outdoor activities with their friends.

[@thedude8526]

I get a physical every year, and I'm single. I think it's not masculine to not give a shit about your health.

[@InvincibleExtremes]

in the Military you get BAH... but it does not increase with the number of dependants, so me being divorced with 2 dependants is the same BASIC HOUSING ALLOWANCE I'd be getting if still married with 4 children... the difference being she could then claim 50% of my military retirement (if she wanted, and most do). so... military minded men should do their time EARLY, and use it as s stepping stone to success outside the military.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

I don't know... eh. I guess it makes it legally both easier AND harder to do things. In MODERN SOCIETY... what does marriage even mean? A contract that can be so easily broken??? A contract that means what again?

[@reinedire7872]

This is the problem. People don't know what marriage is. They think it's just sharing furniture with someone you really like until you don't. If people don't understand what it is because society has redefined it into oblivion, it's no wonder why people don't bother to take it seriously.

[@christopherhennessey8991]

That’s what Tony Tennille said in an interview. Her tax attorney or accountant suggested they get married for the tax benefits.

[@Bruno-u6f]

there are no benefits, simple

[@fredstriker2042]

Not one

[@zeorhymer6]

The best way is to dissolve government from marriage

[@j-dub618]

At 10 years of age I thought 23 years old would be a good age to get married. At 23 years of age, I knew I'd never get married.

[@nunyab1975]

Aaron, an idea to solve the west’s demographic collapse is to make it easier to bring foreign brides (and kids) back to the US but not allow them to no fault divorce and no citizenship until kids are 18 and American citizens. It’s a steady stream of potential citizens, who appreciate normal expectations, can pay into the system, and prevent excessive wealth transfer out of the US. It ain’t perfect and it will be abused. US women will hate it but hopefully the powers that be will realize they’ll never be happy and them being here still increases economic production.

[@Tit4Tat92]

💡That’s a wild idea but it just might work 👏🏾

[@larrycashion752]

Cheaper health insurance? That's not even a good starting point

[@arthurdirindinjr1792]

OH MY EVERLOVING GOD How many more times MUST it be said then proven then lived that marriage today offers absolutely no benefit let alone benafitS WHATSOEVER to men Marriage ONLY offers the absolute worst possible risks to a mans financial spiritual and psychological well-being he can ever possibly take Nothing more need be said

[@anonymity2882]

But marriage does benefit people, women.

[@zebageba]

Are they really considered people?

[@arinthel]

There aren't. If you aren't religious dont. If you both are (which is the only way marriage means anything), treat it as the church sacrament it is and do it in the church.

[@olebloom1641]

You are 💯 on the separate house's. My late wife and I had two different homes. We spent 3 or 4 days together and when one of was sick and tired of the other's b.s. we just went to our different homes. Worked great.

[@jaydoubleli]

roses are red, love is fake, a wedding is just a funeral with cake

[@commycomentor9695]

It’s literally “just for show” at this point… even if you’re straight she’s a beard

[@davescott9062]

Mawage, Mawage ...

[@SuspensionTruth]

... is what bwings us toogethaa...

[@charrua18]

when i need a dose of reality.

[@zebageba]

Give it to your last girlfriend.

[@matthewharrigan3568]

Immigration is one legit benefit of marriage if only 1 person in the relationship is a citizen

[@notsure1135]

A reason to no longer live?

[@jkbrown5496]

Marriage only has a purpose for children. The "companionate marriage" was proffered in the 1920s, which was essentially no-fault divorce, but only if there were no children. "With us, all this has been absolutely changed. The clear and almost effected tendency of to-day is to consider that the marriage relation makes no difference whatever in the status of the two married persons, except to affect the descent of their property after death, and to make it a penal offence for the husband to refuse to support his wife." --The Ethics of Democracy by F.J. Stimson. Scribner’s Magazine (1887) "…this curious confirmation of the old French economist’s cynical reason for marriage that it is an institution made necessary by property, and designed for its protection and preservation alone.” -----The Ethics of Democracy by F.J. Stimson. Scribner’s Magazine (1887)

[@DenshaOtoko2]

Social acceptence in my church and community and the love of my parents and their acceptance of becoming an adult.