Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 22:52:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Senator Santorum Message-ID: <3EBC939C.FEE9E9D3@mindspring.com> References: <20030510024104.N40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi wrote: > > Well it comes down to, i think, legal and economic issues. From a > > taxation issue i can see it, imagine a guy claiming 3 wives and 2 kids > > from each as exemptions. Or dealing with the implications of the whole > > family breaking up from a legal, economic and social standpoint. I for > > one would not want to be married to more than one woman, I don't think > > I would survive it ;). > > Well, the correct question is 'what and how can the wives claim benefits > on'. But its a simple matter of amending the tax code. Where it gets > tricky is if any of the wives are intermarried or married to somebody else > and you get (possibly long) cycles. The government likes families to form Acyclic Directed Graphs. That way, they can compute transitive closure over the tax codes... No Alexander Hamiltonian cycles... -- Terry
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