{"id":1323,"date":"2011-12-31T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2011\/12\/31\/wherein-i-talk-about-money\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T21:10:54","slug":"wherein-i-talk-about-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wherein-i-talk-about-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I talk about money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written: 12\/31\/2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people ask what kinds of rights the BLTG (sorry, love the BLT sandwich so much!) don&#8217;t have.\u00a0 There are (at last count if I remember correctly) 1,138 rights, protections and responsibilities from the Federal Government that are barred.<\/p>\n<p>So<a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/News\/Daily_News\/2011\/12\/27\/Same_Sex_Couples_Pay_More_Taxes\/\"> let&#8217;s talk about money<\/a> for a moment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>CNNMoney <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/26\/pf\/taxes\/gay_marriage_taxes\/index.htm?source=yahoo_hosted\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"reports\">reports<\/a> that the federal government\u2019s lack of recognition of same-sex marriages, which forces legally married couples to file separately on their federal returns, results in as much as $6,000 per year in additional taxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Not only are these couples losing out because they can\u2019t take advantage of the lower tax rates that come from combining incomes and deductions, says to the article, it\u2019s \u201calso harder for them to qualify for certain tax breaks because the credits phase out sooner for single filers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird talking about a tangible thing, or at least, as tangible as money can be.<\/p>\n<p>Guess I need to do better at saving!<\/p>\n<p>All my best,<\/p>\n<p>The King of Spades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written: 12\/31\/2011 Sometimes people ask what kinds of rights the BLTG (sorry, love the BLT sandwich so much!) don&#8217;t have.\u00a0 There are (at last count if I remember correctly) 1,138 rights, protections and responsibilities from the Federal Government that are barred. So let&#8217;s talk about money for a moment: CNNMoney reports that the federal government\u2019s lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-king-of-spades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}