End of anti marriage bias

[ruby27]

Tory's idea of a tax incentive of �20.00 a week.

My colleagues I spoke to today about this didn't think it would make any difference to them in making decisions about being a working parent or marriage. I can not imagine it would for anyone, especially not someone who was considering leaving their spouse and child.
If I was a Tory I would want to weep about this latest proposal.
What do others think, is this a good move politically, with long term positive effects on society?

[jake-the-peg]

I think there's a massive fallacy in the argument

if 1/2 of unmarried parents split up before their children are 5, but only 1 in 12 marriages fail in that time, it doesn't mean that those people would stay together or be better people if they got married instead.

Besides that if the argument is about children why give tax breaks to childless married couples?

A lot of wooly thinking going on down Cameron way

[Reverandfunk]

Pie in the sky. Not even worth discussing.

[jake-the-peg]

Isn't this just a clumsy �3 billion vote Tory bribe?

From the people who brought you last years storm in a teacup over the �500 million NHS deficit!

[Pippa68]

If it does happen I am sure it will be taken away from you somewhere else anyway...

[Bazile]

History shows this wont work
Remenber that thing called the maried couples allowance ?
Well , during the seventies onwards , when the allowance was in place ,divorce rates were the highest ever seen

Is he really concerned about the institution of marriage or just about getting votes at the next election - The latter, me thinks

[ludwig]

It's not about encouraging people to get married or to stay married, it's about removing the tax discrimination against married people (according to the tories).
If that's true I don't see how anyone can be critical of it.

[amonty1144]

hilarious,�20 a week will come nowhere near my salary nor will it make me stay married if I don't want to.
I go to work cos I choose to, being a driven career minded woman not only beacause of the money, although the cars, holidays and clothes helps( omg how shallow)

[Bazile]

Ludwig

I think you will find it is indeed because the tories do believe that marriage is desirable to fix the broken society that they think we now live in , why this is one of their proposal