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"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:

- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.

- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.

- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.

Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."

jacobin.com/2025/01/universali

jacobin.comUniversalism Fixes Flawed Welfare StatesThousands of Americans cohabitate but don't marry because doing so would result in the loss of Medicaid eligibility. Marriage penalties (and bonuses) are just part of why we need a universal social-democratic welfare state.

Once again, these are people who by the UK Government's revised criteria are due help this winter but will not get it because moving from universalism to means testing ALWAYS leads to people missing out who shouldn't.

This is not an accident. It is by design.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr54n3

BBC NewsWinter fuel payment: 780,000 to miss out on allowance, says DWPPensioners aged 80 and over would take the biggest financial hit, a government analysis found

@Radical_EgoCom serious question: what is the theoretical and empirical basis for the definition of racism, which lies behind this discourse? Which papers came up with it? CRT?
It seems to have "interesting" consequences, for instance, Nazis were no racists as far as they wanted to suppress other white people such as Jews or Slavic nations.
I wonder why that definition of racism did not implode at first non-US contact. And also, what knowledge we gain by using this definition. #universalism #crt

I am so happy to arrive here!
I have migrated from various bigger servers of #microblogging. Phew.

I was born and raised in France, moved to #GreaterParis. So i will give a few hints on the country in English: #merit #respectability #rapeCulture #coloniality #stateRacism #universalism. Come to #France2024! 😒 <snark>
(Much more can be found "en français" at @breton@eldritch.cafe: #patriarcat #cultureDuViol #fragilité #islamophobie #colonialité #décoloniale #FranceIsraël #racismeDÉtat #paniqueMorale #guerreCulturelle.)
I am a white male person working on my fellow condition: #patriarchy #fragility #entitlement #whiteness @supremacy.

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I am in my fifties. So i will discuss #militancy and #MoralBeauty. I mean: #feelGood is a primary fuel for our actions and our opponents behaviours. I will illustrate with #resources, easy #sociology, #photos of #protests. So follow #ActionPics for upcoming threads.

#France was and is a leader in harnessing outside land, energy and labour. (Second to English cultures.) So i have a few hints on #islamophobia #counterTerrorism #israelism #StandWithIsrael @military.

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