We could have all been proud to see this go down to defeat last night

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Supporters of gay rights have long been trying to change the tax treatment of health benefits provided by employers to the domestic partners of their employees. In effect, such benefits are now treated as taxable income for the employee, and the employer may owe payroll taxes on their fair-market value.

Under the bill, such benefits would be tax-free, just like health benefits provided to the family of an employee married to a person of the opposite sex.

Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, who proposed the change, said it would “correct a longstanding injustice, end a blatant inequity in the tax code and help make health care coverage more affordable for more Americans.”

Joseph R. Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group, said federal tax law had not kept up with changes in the workplace.

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On edit: Then we could have joined in the praise of those who voted against the bill.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Stop it. Stop making sense.

You're really pissing on some pity parties here, girl. :evilgrin:

:toast:

Thanks, as ever, for all of your well-sources and cogent posts.

K and R.

[ProSense]

2. It's healthy. n/t

[kid a]

3. Thanks!