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podank99 · 18 days

In the US it depends. In a dual income situation, where both individuals make about the same, and they are able to itemize their deductions (instead of taking the standard deduction), they will be taxed more (I can go into details, but I doubt anyone cares). This situation applies to many middle class and especially upper middle class people.

In a situation where one makes much more money than the other (or one doesn't work at all), there is a decent tax benefit for being married

sevenev · 19 days

Is there an orange one in your front yard?

doc_daneeka · 27 days

Unless of course you want the freedom to get an abortion, then Rob Paul is ok with the state having the ability to take that away. Or if you're a gay couple wanting to get married, he's ok with not letting you have that freedom either.

But yeah, if you're a heterosexual white male, Ron Paul wants to save your freedoms.

drewjet · 1 month

Do you have a source to confirm you can die within a day from dehydration in those locations? I don't disbelieve you, I'd just really appreciate a source.

dominatus · 1 month

I'm sorry, but taxes probably don't work the way you think they do. The low income brackets in America are doubled for married people. Furthermore, you don't pay the rate for the bracket you're in for all you're money, just the portion over the bracket.

The only time marriage helps you on taxes is if you have a very very high income, or one person has a relatively high income and the other person has no income or very little. (because the two get "averaged" and you pay a lower rate overall)

You both live in Florida (from a previous answer) so you pay no income tax to the state. Furthermore, if you're both making very little, you probably pay virtually no (or completely no) income taxes to begin with.

EDIT: And a note, marriage can actually cause you to pay MORE taxes. If you have a joint asset, like a mortgage, when single one person can claim the interest while the other person takes the standard deduction. When married, you can no longer do that, both people need to itemize, so you effectively lose 1 person's standard deduction and end up paying about 1k more in taxes a year (depending on your bracket, more or less). Happened to me.

dominatus · 1 month

And to back you up further, I saw a break down of that stat once. If you discount all the shotgun weddings and people getting married right out of high school, the rate drops to something like 20%.

womanbearpig · 1 month

I think OP meant "but the same mass" as in, the same mass as our current moon but the size of a gas giant.

AkaSillyGirl · 1 month

World War I began in 1914. In addition the amendment was introduced in 1909. In FURTHER addition, the income tax was introduced during the civil war. The amendment was to cement the constitutionality of it.

So basically, everything you said was wrong.

ghiortjgiorj · 1 month

Has there been any research on how something like this would have evolved?

AkaSillyGirl · 1 month

Right, that's why they amended the constitution in 1913 to specifically include the power to tax incomes....because it was meant to be temporary ಠ_ಠ

dominatus · 1 month

Does string theory still consider these fundamental objects to be "ripples" in a field like the Standard Model does? Or is that entire notion only present in the SM?

nincumpoop · 1 month

"Go over there sweetie with your arms spread open; daddy needs his karma" :)

nacbrie · 1 month

The OP specifically asks why equal numbers of X and Y sperm are produced. That's what I addressed. In Elephant Seals equal male and female embryos are produced, and it is the mother who selectively absorbs embryos of a certain sex due to environmental pressures. But the question of why equal number of "male" and "female" sperm are created, even in Elephant Seals, is addressed by my answer.

nacbrie · 1 month

That would depend on exactly what the OP was asking, wouldn't it? Is he looking for a mechanical or evolutionary explanation to the question at hand. I explained the "mechanical" process for what drives the 50/50 split in human gender, regardless of it's evolutionary cause. I don't see how it's not a valid answer given the original question was still open to some interpretation.

nacbrie · 1 month

I'm sorry, I don't normally post on AskScience. Can someone explain why this is being downvoted?

nacbrie · 1 month

A male has both an X and a Y chromosome. When his cells split to form sperm cells, half of the chromosomes end up in one sperm cell, the other half in another. The end result is one sperm cell with an "X" and one with a "Y". Since the man's sperm cells are produced from cells with both an X and a Y, he makes equal sperm X and Y during that division.

All of a female's eggs are "X", so if a "Y" sperm meets up with an egg, it creates an XY a.k.a. a male. If an "X" sperm meets up with an egg, it creates an XX a.ka. a female.

mrhomer · 1 month

Ice is less dense than water, that's why ice floats in water. In fact, when ice floats in water, it displaces exactly as much water as it would if it were melted (the rest pokes above).

Here's a simple experiment. Get a cup of water with an ice cube in it. Draw a line where the water is. Let the ice cube melt. The water level will have not moved.

kg4 · 1 month

Please tell us what city in the world has 52 children mauled each year by pitbulls. Or are you just a fucking asshole? Yeah, I'm guessing the later.

fish629 · 2 months

Maybe. My wife and I each get a chunk of money (equal, of course) each month to do whatever we want with. We only have a set "going out" budget, so often times one of us will use our personal money to treat the other to dinner.

e1_duder · 3 months

My point was, visible light is the part of the spectrum we can see. The rest is still light, just not visible. My question was rhetorical.

e1_duder · 3 months

Right, so radio waves are then consider forms light

e1_duder · 3 months

Then explain to me why we have the expression "visible light". What would you call "invisible light"?

e1_duder · 3 months

You're thinking of visible light. To a lay person, light is visible light. In physics, electromagnetic radiation is considered light of any wavelength.

e1_duder · 3 months

Radio signals ARE light.

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