IRS Rules That As Long As Gay Couples Are Legally Wed, State of Residence Doesn't Matter

So now that nitpicking about the difference between legalizing gay marriage (a phrasing that makes certain people grind their teeth) and recognition of gay marriage has a purpose. As a result of the Supreme Court striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, the feds have announced that a gay couple who was legally married can file as a couple with the IRS even if they live in a state that refuses to recognize it.

From the Huffington Post:

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Thursday that when it comes to taxes, it will recognize same-sex couples' marriages even if they live in a state that does not.

The decision, which was prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, marks the latest political progress for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Prior to this spring, the IRS did not recognize same-sex married couples pursuant to section 3 of DOMA. Once DOMA was overturned in June, the question became: What about same-sex married couples who moved to a state that didn't recognize their marriage (a couple married in Massachusetts who moved to Arkansas, for example)?

The ruling is that the state where the officials signed off on the marriage is what counts, not where the couple lives. It makes sense, but certainly makes things complicated for some gay couples.

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Comments

[Dweebston]

Having never been married, and making little enough that a 1040 is always sufficient for my few deductions, does filing jointly make a tremendous difference for gay couples? And how does such a couple prove their marriage to the IRS without a state-issued certificate?

[Scott S.]

The will have a state-issued certificate from the state where they were married.

[Episiarch]

To my understanding, it doesn't make much difference if there are no dependents. However, in the case of dependents and one spouse making very little, if they file separately, the spouse making very little can claim head of household and the dependents and get a shit-ton of deductions.

[prolefeed]

The number of dependents doesn't matter much. What matters is that the tax rate for a given joint household income is much lower for married versus single.

So, if a gay couple is married, and one earns a butt ton of money and the other not very much, they can save a lot of money filing as married.

If they both earn about the same amount, it is roughly a wash for married versus single.

[CE]

So, Social Security benefits and federal pensions are next? Good for equality, bad for the budget...

[LarryA]

You say that like we actually HAVE a federal budget.

[Goldwin Smith]

You know which other country the legislature didn't pass a budget for several years while taxes were still collecting and the government still spent money?

[Libertymike]

Do enlighten.

[Goldwin Smith]

Prussia in the 1860s.

Also Germany in the early 1930s simply passed budgets through Emergency Decree.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Godwin FAIL!

[Almanian!]

The Duchy of Fenwick?

[Hillary's Clitdong]

The Empire?

[fish_remote]

So, Social Security benefits and federal pensions are next? Good for equality, bad for the budget...

Less dollars for the federal coffer is always good!

[Goldwin Smith]

You know which other country had to pay a lot of benefits?

[Jayce]

You don't really think the pols are going to let a Social Security shortfall stand, do you? It is extremely unlikely to be less dollars for the gov, it is far more likely to be higher taxes on the poor suckers still living when the bills come due. That's why so many have been pitching a fit about the unfunded liabilities the fed gov is still racking up. Anyone currently under 50 is deep in the outhouse waste chamber, but anyone currently under 25 is buried thrice under that and there won't be a shovel to be found.

[Invisible Finger]

Goddamn activist accountants.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So now that nitpicking about the difference between legalizing gay marriage (a phrasing that makes certain people grind their teeth)...

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT IT DOES.

This sounds very much like a same-sex marriage loophole that's suddenly been opened up. The Obama administration can't keep opening these loopholes for favored groups and closing other loopholes for less than favored groups. LOOPHOLES.

[Irish]

We are spreading. Our kind shall consume your lands like locusts.

[Episiarch]

I thought you already did.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

I WILL PLANT POTATOES AND THEN GROW RICH SELLING THEM TO IRISHFOLK

[Libertymike]

Our women don't pump them out like they used to in the days or yore.

[Almanian!]

Watch out. Those fuckin' Irish will fuckin' KILL you.

[darius404]

I've tried alerting those around me to the Irish threat, but they always ignore me. Let's see them ignore THIS.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

It's always just about the benjamins with the IRS

[AlmightyJB]

Does this mean everyone will turn gay now?

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

the non-gays will be persecuted.

[AlmightyJB]

I know some heterosexuals who are pretty gay. What happens to them?

[Episiarch]

As the gayest monster since gay came to Gaytown, I would also like the answer to this question.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

they will be killed last.

[Libertymike]

Although they were told, "we like you, that's why we are going to kill you last", they will discover, "we lied."

[Puggg]

Obama tries to force employers to hire felons, because Blacks are more likely to be felons.

[Almanian!]

zat you, 'murcan?

[Irish]

No, this is a pretty serious overreach of federal power. It's something to be legitimately upset about.

American never wrote about anything that actually is terrible. It was just bizarre ranting about Mexicans.

[Heroic Mulatto]

No, you idiot sheeperson, it's the Reptiloids that are pushing for war as, due to their metabolisms, the need to consume the hearts of humans from haplogroup J in order to maintain their immortality.

They consume the body parts during an occult ritual during at Bohemian Grove.

After which, they have reptilian pedophile sex with PROJECT MONARCH agents on the grave of Whitney Houston.

It's so sad that you can't see the signs in front of your very face.

[Heroic Mulatto]

The description of the link's contents is accurate.

[Almanian!]

...and, trolling complete.

YES!

[LyTo]

What makes you think it's American?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Shut the fuc....oh.

[Almanian!]

This decision is fucking gay.

[wakeup]

False Flag: While the Western world gears up for possible military action against Syria using an alleged chemical weapons attack as justification, vastly more evidence points to the culpability of the death squads than to that of the Syrian government. Information continues to emerge disproving the mainstream media and Western government claims regarding the tragedy which took place last week.

[Heroic Mulatto]

JOOZ DID 11/9*!!!!

*Really

[Libertymike]

HM, should not an unbiased reporter, journalist, broadcast organization, etc., in delivering news or providing coverage of a pronouncement from either an American or Israeli official that Iran must not be permitted to acquire a nuke, tell folks that, "of course, keep in mind that the US has thousands of nuclear weapons and is the only state to have ever used atomic weapons and mass murder people and of course, the Israelis have nuclear weapons and it has a record of perpetrating mass murder"?

Each and every time. That is fair and balanced.

Who the fuck are we or Israel to beating the war drums because the Iranians might develop a nuke?

[Heroic Mulatto]

There's a difference between taking a critical look at the geo-politics of the Middle East and the relationship between Israel and America and the Judeophobia peddled by "wakeup" and his masters.

[Libertymike]

Yes. Judeophobia is one thing whereas principally self-identifying by group, such as ethnicity or national origin or present nation state or religion or race is, imo, at least as bad.

If one is Jewish, one is not special because one is Jewish; put another way, there is nothing special or beautiful about being Jewish, in and of itself.

The same applies to being black.

And white.

Those who cling to their ethnicity / race / religion / nation state are, imo, just lesser than those of us who eschew such group identification.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I 110% agree.

[PM]

I suppose it would then behoove us to point out that Iran killed tens of thousands of civilians in the Iran-Iraq war then as well. And while we're at it, we should add that the UK, which was the former imperial power in control of the United States, carpet bombed Dresden. And of course, we can't ignore the Norman sack of Rome...

Next thing you know it takes us a 500-page listing of military atrocities throughout history before we can get down to "TEH SCARY J00S HAVE NUKES"!!!

[Goldwin Smith]

How about British and French use of poison gas in WWI while a US allies?

Or Persian conquests of Babylon, invasions of Greece or the Parthian wars with Rome...

[Goldwin Smith]

If the incident didn't happen (note the use of "alleged") then it couldn't have been a false flag attack.

[wakeup]

Israel wants US to go to war, desparately

[Almanian!]

And in other not-new news...

[Heroic Mulatto]

No, you idiot sheeperson, it's the Reptiloids that are pushing for war as, due to their metabolisms, the need to consume the hearts of humans from haplogroup J in order to maintain their immortality.

They consume the body parts during an occult ritual during at Bohemian Grove.

After which, they have reptilian pedophile sex with PROJECT MONARCH agents on the grave of Whitney Houston.

It's so sad that you can't see the signs in front of your very face.

[wakeup]

Amid the myraid of presidential scandals, President Obama and his monster of a secretary of State, John Kerry (Skull & Bones) is steering America headlong into World War 3.

Russia has already evacuating 90 civilians and sending in ground troops into Syria as we speak. You can bet nuclear missiles will be brought into the country as well.

It is anticipated that Jon Kerry's little freaking war with Syria will bring Russia, China, Iran and Israel into the fray.

The result of this foolhardy act by the Obama administration will be thermonuclear war and annihilation of the entire middle east.

If the U.S. congress had done its job and impeached the incompetent president all of this could have been avoided.

This is the greatest American crisis since the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in 1961, except this time there is no president John F. Kennedy to stop it..

Bye bye America. Nice knowing you..

http://www.dailypaul.com/29710.....orld-war-3!!

[Irish]

Wow. Daily Paul is filled with crazy assholes ranting about Skull and Bones and Lizard People.

This does not surprise me.

[Libertymike]

Intellectual curiosity, command of history, comprehensive grasp of facts, vocabulary and wit of posters:

Daily Paul v NRO?

Daily Paul v Red State?

Daily Paul v HuffPo?

Daily Paul to H&R?

NRO and Red State, usually, not always, marginally better than HuffypuffPO.

Naturally, Reason crushes NRO, Red State and Huffy.

Dailypaul? Ain't never been there. Perhaps I will introduce myself to the commentariat.

[Irish]

Just my 2 cents...
Submitted by ronpaul1fan on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 10:28. Permalink
Does anyone one else see another "false flag" coming on US soil?

they are lizards incarnate
Submitted by freedomnyms on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 02:56. Permalink
they are lizards incarnate

There are also a few comments ranting about skull and bones. That's pretty fucking crazy, Libertymike. Might not be worse than HuffPo, but I'd take NRO over people seriously putting forth lizard people as a possible culprit.

[Francisco d Anconia]

You sure he was serious?

With some of our memes and sarc, I'm sure the unindoctrinated visiting here think we are batshit nuts.

[Almanian!]

Hell, I'm a commenter and I think we're batshit nuts.

[jesse.in.mb]

Hell, I'm a commenter and I think we're batshit nuts.

And you do your best to keep it that way.

[Calidissident]

He may have been, he may not have been. I used to post on the DP during primary season. There were a good number of crazy people on there then, and it got worse after Ron Paul lost.

[Calidissident]

That was a reply to FDA btw

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Love the Paul(s), hate the Paultards?

[Irish]

I love Rand Paul. I think some of the things critics of Ron say have merit. He clearly has terrible choice in friends, doesn't know how to keep the loonies he surrounds himself with from hurting his career, and tends to come off as a bit unhinged when you hear him speak. When you've got Rockwell on the board of your foreign policy think tank, something has gone seriously wrong.

Not to say I don't appreciate that he's gotten people involved and thinking about more libertarian types of governance, but that doesn't change the fact that he has some serious personal negatives.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

I agree. I admire Ron Paul a lot on a personal level and for what he has done to make liberty more popular, but he's definitely got his drawbacks.

I've yet to find anything egregiously wrong with Rand, so I have high hopes for him.

[Libertymike]

Irish, Lew Rockwell has done far more for liberty than Reason. There's nothing cosmotarian about Rockwell.

Look at his site. Some of columnists to which he links and has on the site include the likes of Tom Woods, William Norman Grigg, Bill Anderson, Tom DiLorenzo, Lawrence Vance and Butler Shaffer and Judge Napolitano.

Reason's crop of writers just don't match up with those regularly featured at Lew's place.

[jesse.in.mb]

9 out of 10 fleet-footed negroes agree.

[Calidissident]

You realize Reason features Judge Napolitano quite a bit, right?

[Francisco d Anconia]

There's nothing cosmotarian about Rockwell.

Christ I'm sick of that word.

[Irish]

Irish, Lew Rockwell has done far more for liberty than Reason. There's nothing cosmotarian about Rockwell.

I never said there's anything Cosmo about Rockwell. I said he's a bit of a loon. See the bizarre articles he would host on his site periodically about how much he approves of actions taken by Hugo fucking Chavez.

Here's some articles on Chavez from Brother Lew's place:

Three Cheers for Hugo Chavez in which we are informed that Chavez' strong arm dictatorial tactics are totally okay because he was elected by a majority of Venezuelans. I wonder of Rockwell would think it were okay if an American president behaved like Chavez simply because he'd won an election.

Chavez in Perspective in which Lew Rockwell reblogs a piece about Hugo Chavez that says:

"Hugo Ch?vez may have been oppressive, but at least he wasn't a lapdog for Washington like so many other heads of state. The world would be a much more free and decentralized place with more anti-imperialist "rogue" nations."

Yes. Truly what the world needs more of is socialist rogue states that sponsor terrorism in neighboring countries.

[Irish]

I said he's a bit of a loon.

Sorry. That should say 'a massive fucking loon.' Most of what Rockwell does is preach to a choir of very radical libertarians while simultaneously spouting paleolibertarian beliefs that are used by leftists to paint the entire libertarian movement as neo-confederate, secretly filled with Socons, or outright racist. He will publish articles in favor of any dictator, no matter how vile, provided said dictator is opposed to the United States.

He will rationalize this by saying that said dictator 'stood up to American imperialist interests!' as if a socialist dictator should be held up as an icon by libertarians because he wanted a bit more autonomy in ruling his little banana fiefdom.

[Goldwin Smith]

"Hugo Ch?vez Adolf Hitler may have been oppressive, but at least he wasn't a lapdog for Washington like so many other heads of state. The world would be a much more free and decentralized place with more anti-imperialist "rogue" nations."

[Libertymike]

So, you link to two pieces concerning Hugo and conclude that by so doing you have proven your point.

Its as if you can't comprehend that one is not, as a matter of logic, a "loon" because one notes that the United States, the undisputed imperialist, the only entity to use atomic weapons on people, the undisputed leader in killing folk by fire bombing them, the undisputed leader in having the most military installations all over the world, the nation state which outspends the rest of the world on "defense", the nation state which is incarceration nation, the asset forfeiture king of the world, the nation state which has given us the war on drugs, the nation state which steals more from its people than any other nation state and more so than almost the rest of the world combined, has no business nodding its finger at any dictator, socialist or otherwise.

Socialist rogue state sponsoring terrorism? You have to be joking? The one nation in the history of the world that could be best described as a rogue socialist state sponsoring terrorism is the united socialist states of America.

[Calidissident]

It's one thing to criticize the US for the things you mention. It's another to praise murderous thugs like Chavez simply because they oppose US meddling with their banana republics

[Goldwin Smith]

the United States, the undisputed imperialist, the only entity to use atomic weapons on people, the undisputed leader in killing folk by fire bombing them, the undisputed leader in having the most military installations all over the world, the nation state which outspends the rest of the world on "defense", the nation state which is incarceration nation, the asset forfeiture king of the world, the nation state which has given us the war on drugs, the nation state which steals more from its people than any other nation state and more so than almost the rest of the world combined,

Has no relevance whatsoever to defending Chavez. Tu quoque anybody?

has no business nodding its finger at any dictator, socialist or otherwise.
I thought you don't believe in State=People? Obama doesn't speak for me and I don't like him so can I criticize Chavez too?

And no criticizing foreign rulers doesn't mean supporting war or whatever against them.

[Goldwin Smith]

And while Cytotoxic may be a warmonger he is right that the anti-US (and anti-Israel) views of the likes of Raimondo and Rockwell does warp their views. I mean I don't see what is so libertarian about praising a foreign ruler for behavior they attack when done by politicians in their own countries. Also I thought tu quoque was a fallacy?

[Libertymike]

Where is the tu quoque?

[Goldwin Smith]

Where is the tu quoque?

Really? Saying that the US can't criticize Chavez because of the bad things it has done is the exact meaning of tu quoque.

Also your whole argument is a red herring since Irish was attacking Rockwell for defending Chavez so the actions of the USG are totally irrelevant to that.

[Libertymike]

No, Irish responded to my assertion that Rockwell has done more for liberty than Reason. Go up-thread and check.

Note how he actually does not respond directly; rather, he goes to the ad hominem by calling Lew a loon and for support he links to an article written by Jude Wanninski which Lew carried and reblog by Lew of a two paragraph critique of the US vis-?-vis Venezuela.

Note how he did not comment about any thing written by any of the writers I listed.

Note how you are not being honest about this here shit.

[Goldwin Smith]

No you were responding to his assertion that he liked Paul but thought Rockwell was a loonie.

[PM]

the undisputed imperialist, the only entity to use atomic weapons on people, the undisputed leader in killing folk by fire bombing them, the undisputed leader in having the most military installations all over the world, the nation state which outspends the rest of the world on "defense", the nation state which is incarceration nation, the asset forfeiture king of the world, the nation state which has given us the war on drugs, the nation state which steals more from its people than any other nation state and more so than almost the rest of the world combined

Aside from the objectively obvious number of (present) military installations and the use of atomic weapons, all of that is quite debatable (tax rates and tax compliance are significantly higher in some parts of the world; the 'war on drugs' is fully international due to UN treaties; asset forfeiture in a good many nations is summary, and far more arbitrary than here; depending on what constitutes 'firebombing' there are regimes with more war casualties under their belt, etc).

And still irrelevant as a retort.

The one nation in the history of the world that could be best described as a rogue socialist state sponsoring terrorism is the united socialist states of America.

The one nation huh? All by its lonesome. In the history of the whole dern universe too, you say?

Hard to imagine why anybody would call you a kook...

[SIV]

There's nothing cosmotarian about Rockwell.

If there was only something kinda in between...

[Libertymike]

So where is the preaching to radical libertarians in the Jude Wanniski column which you cited? Do radical libertarians embrace socialism?

Doew Lew Rockwell endorse socialism? Does he want an income tax? Does he want to continue to bankrupt us by funding the militarah and all of its constituent parasites?

What paleolibertarian beliefs did Jude Wanninski spout in the piece you linked?

In the other link, the one which Lew reblogged, what paleolibertarian beliefs were spouted?

Irish, you claim that Lew preaches to a choir of radical libertarians while simultaneously spouting paleo-libertarian beliefs that are used by leftists to paint the entire libertarian movement as neo-confederate, secretly filled with socons, or outright racist.

[Goldwin Smith]

Do radical libertarians embrace socialism?

As long as it is done by the Right TOP MEN (i.e. dictators that oppose the USG) then yes?

[Libertymike]

The two links do not support your thesis that Lew is preaching to the radical libertarian choir while simultaneously spouting paleo-libertarian beliefs.

So, are you worried that leftists may conflate your view or the world with that of Lew's? How can you worry about that when you do not appear to have a good grasp of just what Lew thinks.

Lew is far more anti-state, anti-war and anti-socialism than most of the commentariat here. He is far more free minds and free markets than Reason.

[Goldwin Smith]

Lew is far more anti-state, anti-war and anti-socialism

Only from the US state.

[Libertymike]

No, you are wrong.

Show me where Lew endorses the income tax of any stinkin' nation state/

Show me where Lew endorses the asset forfeiture regime of any nation state.

Show me where Lew endorses the drug war of any nation state.

Show me where Lew endorses the papers please society, i.e., drivers licenses, ids at airports, ids for cops, ids to enter courthouses - you get it, right.

Show me where Lew endorses fiat money in any nation state.

[Goldwin Smith]

You must get quite a workout from moving those goalposts.

[Goldwin Smith]

See the Lewrockwell show tagline?
Covering the US government's economic depredations, police state enactments, and wars of aggression.

Nice to see him being honest for once.

[Libertymike]

Ah, look at your previous post. You are the one who stated that Lew is only more anti-state, anti-war and anti-socialism with regard to the US.

I just pancaked you and you claim I am moving the goalposts?

[Libertymike]

Ah, look at your previous post. You are the one who stated that Lew is only more anti-state, anti-war and anti-socialism with regard to the US.

I just pancaked you and you claim I am moving the goalposts?

[Goldwin Smith]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc.....visionism/

Seems he is willing to admit that statists do get things done. How libertarian.

[Goldwin Smith]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc.....visionism/

[Libertymike]

WTF?

The goal posts are (see up-thread):

Lew Rockwell has done more for liberty than Reason. I list a plethora of writers who, in my view, outdo the Cathy Youngs and Ron Baileys and Dave Weigels of the world, and Irish trots out the two links above which have nothing to do with the original goal posts.

[Goldwin Smith]

Tis true that Rockwell has some good writers and Reason has some bad ones. Believe me I'm no Reason apologist.

Dilorenzo is pretty good when he isn't bashing Lincoln. Oh and before you get mad I'm not saying that because I don't like him bashing Lincoln but because for a while every single post of his was a rehash of the same Lincoln attack and he used any single event as an excuse to trot it out. Got boring after a while.

[Goldwin Smith]

Also I see you ignored the fact that I posted an explicit defense of the statist behavior of Chavez? Truthout.org doesn't claim that Hugo was really some libertarian minarchist...

[Libertymike]

No, I asked WTF? because it was three lines of Rockwell acknowledging that just because the US meddled in your affairs Hugo, does not thereby make you a good guy and then a broken link. I'll check it out the link again.

But I don't see where Lew defends any statist policies of any state. If I am mistaken and Lew actually defends some statist practice, by any nation state, then shame on him.

As for me and Hugo, do you really think that I support nationalization of any product, by any nation state, including Chavez' oil grab?

Its not as if I grade on a curve, either. Its straight up, absolute anarcho-free enterprise-individualism, baby. The only A+ is a totally free, stateless society. None of them, so no perfect scores.

Therefore, Chavez" Venezuela, FAIL. Brezhnev's USSR, FAIL. Assad the Elder's Syria, FAIL. Assad the Younger's Syria, FAIL. Putin's Russia, FAIL.

Do you doubt that almost all anarcho types would give out the same grades?

As for the writers, what about Butler Shaffer? He's a superb writer.

How about Grigg? He is more of a meticulous writer than Balko and, unlike Balko, does not cede any big picture philosophical positions. Plus, he's a better, more informed, writer than Balko.

What about Tom Woods? Like the Jacket or Chapman could hang with him.

What about Bill Anderson?

[PM]

Therefore, Chavez" Venezuela, FAIL. Brezhnev's USSR, FAIL. Assad the Elder's Syria, FAIL. Assad the Younger's Syria, FAIL. Putin's Russia, FAIL.

Grading on a pass/fail basis and neglecting to recognize differences in degree significantly diminishes the suffering people have experienced and continue to experience in more vs less free societies, and makes people less inclined to take you very seriously (and by "you" I don't mean you in particular, but anyone who advances those kinds of arguments).

[SIV]

He is far more free minds and free markets than Reason.

Low bar j/k sort of

[Almanian!]

epic

[Heroic Mulatto]

This is the greatest American crisis since the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in 1961, except this time there is no president John F. Kennedy to stop it.

This is what JFK looked like?

All those other pictures must have been a sinister misinformation campaign by the agents of World Jewry.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

#YOLO

[SweatingGin]

He's got "winner" written all over his face.

I thought there were no guns in NZ? Aside from the mega upload guy's shotties or something.

[SIV]

Looks Caucasian. I had some physical anthropological differences with some commenters on whether Polynesians are Caucasian. A matter of genetics vs cranio-facial anthropometry.

[Heroic Mulatto]

From the linguistic standpoint, the argument that a Polynesian would be "Caucasian" is ludicrious. The history of Malayo-Polynesian as a branch of the Austronesian language family is a well defined and with no connection whatsoever to the Indo-European language family.

[Heroic Mulatto]

*ludicrous

[jesse.in.mb]

RUMBLE IN THE WHITE TOWER 2013!

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

WHITE TOWER

This is now a Wheel of Time thread.
GO!

[Heroic Mulatto]

I prefer White Castle.

[jesse.in.mb]

Stop othering me with your East Coast cultural references.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Although White Castle has had a storied history in the Tri-State area, it's more of a Mid-West thing, I have to admit.

[Goldwin Smith]

the Tri-State area

How's your inators Doof?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VER9VaV9XF4

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

Canada has exactly zero Tri-State areas.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

Stop othering me with your non-Canadian cultural references.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Fine. After a meal at White Castle, we'll hit the strip club where we'll pay the dancers in Canadian Tire money.

[jesse.in.mb]

Wait, you have to pay strippers in Canada, I thought they had universal healthcare and therefore the socialism.

And shouldn't they spell it tyre to prove they aren't Americans?

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

tyre

we're not that european.

[jesse.in.mb]

How many metres does it take to get o the nearest labourer?

[Irish]

Magic Johnson on helping with Obamacare advertising: I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would work with the smartest leader in the world!

Well, he's certainly in the top 100.

[Libertymike]

He wasn't referring to Doc River?

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

You mean Phil Jackson.

[Calidissident]

^This

[Libertymike]

No, I mean Doc River.

[Calidissident]

Never heard of him

[Libertymike]

You must be in sarc?

[jesse.in.mb]

And this is why I don't go on Facebook often

JB:Last year...
"PEOPLE OF SYRIA WE ARE WITH YOU."

A million refugees and thousands of casualties later...
"NO WAR IN SYRIA!"

Can't say lobbing a few Tomahawks missiles at Assad sounds so bad to me.

And in the replies

JS: The irony is: Assad deserves it, from a geopolitical point of view, WAY more than Saddam did (though both are/were deserving from a moral standpoint). But...BUT...Personally, I'm only with it if we've got a real coalition with us. The US should be finished with unilateral action.

[Lady Bertrum]

"PEOPLE OF SYRIA WE ARE WITH YOU."

So by with you he meant a shallow sentiment which costs him nothing.

Yeah, sometimes people suck.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Sometimes?

[Fatty Bolger]

Bet he's got a FREE TIBET sticker on his car, too.

[Libertymike]

Why would you ever go on FB?

[Pubic Hairshirt]

Well the "Orange Line Cosmos" will be happy now that fags get their special little recognition card from the Big Evil Government.

And to prove how not bigoted we are, we'll impute those who fought for marriage equality with nefarious alternative purposes, like expanding the reach of the state.

That way we can still hate queers but give it some "small government" bonafide cover.

[Pubic Hairshirt]

p.s. this is Redefining Marriage, I just got tired of trying to think up new ways of rewording the same handle.

[Pubic Hairshirt]

p.p.s. that wasn't pure trolling, so no need to remove it. It was more a sarcastic poke in the eye to the paleos who try to twist the pro-gay marriage argument around into some kind of accusation of loving Big Government.

[jesse.in.mb]

that wasn't pure trolling, so no need to remove it

Wait, are you actually a real person?

[Goldwin Smith]

You know Who Else was a real person?

[jesse.in.mb]

snuffleupagus?

[Almanian!]

The Bear Jew?

[Francisco d Anconia]

Santa Claus?

No wait.

Er...maybe...nevermind.

[Calidissident]

Manti Te'o's girlfriend?

[Lady Bertrum]

Hey, fella? Go ahead and get that Haldol prescription refilled ASAP.

[SIV]

Lame-o cosmotarian sockpuppet trying to smear paleos (-lib and -con) with guilt-by-association admits it.This one and "American". Worst H&R sockpuppeting since the aborted Mike Riggs' personas.

[Goldwin Smith]

aborted Mike Riggs' personas

Who are you referring to?

[darius404]

SIV is obsessed with the idea that some trolls here are actually Reason writers trying to gin up more comments. He thinks Palin's Buttplug (or maybe it was Tony?) is Nick Gillespie.

[Calidissident]

Well, given the turmoil in Syria and surrounding countries, I think we're morally obligated to accept potential Syrian refugees like this young woman

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm.....yria-1.jpg

[Francisco d Anconia]

Agreed.

Damn, middle eastern women can be stunning.

[Calidissident]

Yes they can. There were very few Persian girls where I grew up, but there's a large population in the LA area (where I go to college now) and damn, they are really beautiful.

[JohnGalt98]

"Can file" as married, or are required to?

As an opposite-sex married couple paying the marriage penalty, I would happily file as single given the choice.

[PM]

You do know there's a category called "Married, filing separately", yes? You'll lose several deductions and credits, but if you're middle class and your college loans are paid off you probably won't miss them.

[Goldwin Smith]

So what do the Young Turks think about this? I would think they would support the conquest of Syria...

[Ted S.]

I think they're busy hating on the Armenians.

[Irish]

Remember when George Bush 'unilaterally' invaded Iraq with 40 other countries? Obama's getting set to go into Libya with zero allies.

Thank God we got rid of that dumb cowboy and ushered in the era of smart diplomacy.

[Calidissident]

We're going into Libya again?

[Irish]

Goddammit. This is why we hit preview.

[Almanian!]

Hells YEAH! Let's nuke the fuck out of Libya again (because FYTW) and THEN go nuke the shit out of Syria!

I like the way Irish is thinking tonight.

[Fatty Bolger]

Why stop there? The whole ME could use a good 'nukin, and we got plenty. Nukes all around!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

But Irish, he's so smart and contemplative!

He'll be sending us into Syria alone after giving it a good hard think and that's what makes him so dreamy.

[Fatty Bolger]

He's going to think very hard on this, carefully weigh every option, and then do whatever Valerie Jarrett tells him to do. It's a process, and he takes it seriously.

[Lady Bertrum]

I understand the French will be writing a sharply worded yet elegant letter in support of Obama's actions. So there's that.

[Eduard van Haalen]

The French, in fact, have a history of invading their former colonies. They've won more colonial wars than they've lost (though the two they lost were certainly doozies).

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

New York Times article about Obama preparing to strike Syria without any allies

I found this comment particularly hilarious:

steve hunterseattle
Mr. President I voted for you twice, but this is the last straw. NO MORE WARS!

Yeah guy, I'm sure Obama is just heartbroken that you won't vote for him in 2016.

[Goldwin Smith]

I'm constantly amazed that BOOOOSH was better at diplomacy and coalition building than King Zero.

[Goldwin Smith]

Also it looks like I was wrong.

Though c. 7 non-white people protesting isn't saying very much.

[Generic Stranger]

The fact that Obama isn't running again is why he's comfortable saying it. If Obama were still in his first term this guy's mouth would still be wrapped around Obama's cock.

[Slammer]

The NFL reached a settlement with the former players about concussions. Around $700 million. The NFL wipes it's ass with million dollar bills.

[Ted S.]

I just hope this settlement gets the assholes in Congress to shut up about the NFL.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

The legal reps for the players accepted the settlement, so it sounds to me that they thought it was fair.

[Slammer]

Yep. And it's a lot cheaper to settle than the drawn out complexity of proving everyone's injuries.How would you even start unraveling that ball of string? Could be lots of bandwagon jumpers on a suit like that.

[Fatty Bolger]

Hmmm. That's a lot of ass wipes, even for the NFL.

[Tulpa (LAOL-VA)]

Kill 16 innocent Afghan women and children, your life is spared.

Kill 13 Army grunts, get a death sentence.

Does that seem right to you? The same laws and enforcers, too.

[SIV]

Yes, more or less in light of the current culture of our justice systems.

The grunt copped a plea. The gov didn't want him defending himself and then have to execute him.

[PM]

Morally? Obviously no. Practically? They may have taken into account the difference between a front-line combat operator and the mental ramifications of the job (especially in light of the fact that we've spent 40 years since Vietnam blaming PTSD for every hangnail a vet gets once he comes back home) vs. a desk jockey pulling in $300k a year who never seen a day of combat and spent his time variously proselytizing and threatening his colleagues whose religion differed from his own.

I like the implication that Army members are stupid and somehow less innocent than Afghani folks though. Classy.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

Earvin Magic Johnson ?@MagicJohnson
Don't forget that Obamacare officially starts on October 1st.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

Earvin Magic Johnson ?@MagicJohnson
Working side by side with the President on getting America back working is bigger and better than the 5 NBA Championships I won!

[jesse.in.mb]

Oh Magic, you so crazy. How do you feel about Obama gutting PEPFAR?

[Tulpa (LAOL-VA)]

Let's hope the national assfucking we get from BO-Care doesn't have consequences as dire as Earvin's had for him.

[Jayce]

Better still would be a government that doesn't try to force your behavior through the tax code at all. Whether you are wed or not, much less to whom, shouldn't have anything whatsoever to do with your taxes, same as the other million things they use to try to force "right" behavior.

More or less correct decision, given it was made within an evil and destructive general policy.

[PM]

Bingo. As far as the federal government is concerned, you shouldn't have a marital status. I don't think the state should be in the marriage industry at all, but to the extent it is, it certainly shouldn't be at the federal level. However, as you said, correct decision with that in mind. If the fedgov is going to recognize a straight marriage license from a given state, it is obligated to recognize all marriage licenses from that state.

[Tejicano]

Somehow I get the feeling that one reason many Americans are not making much of a fuss over this is from some silly belief that we could probably invade a small country like Syria with less effort and fewer American deaths than it took to invade Iraq.

I mean, come on, it's almost the same size as the former country of North Vietnam.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

XKCD reads H&R?

[Ann N]

I love the language of IRS 'rules' state doesnt matter.

as if they are judges and this is a courtroom. what a joke.

[DrZaius]

Cool. Now my gun license, engineering license, drivers license, fishing license etc. can go anywhere.