The War on Marriage

It turns out that while many Conservatives and even Religious Democrats were worried about how the inclusion of Homosexuals into the traditional Heterosexual concept of marriage they had their eye on the wrong enemy the whole time.  Or at least that is what the preliminary data would show.  As it is Homosexual divorce rates are hard to capture.  Though it would appear that Gay couples are far less likely to divorce than their Lesbian counterparts.  The Conservative argument that was lost in the mess was not in divorce rates but in the societal recognition of the differences between men and women.  Regardless of the worries of the religious, the conservatives, and the homophobics, it turns out there really was a war on marriage it was just hidden by a different set of tactics.

CBS New York reports Obamacare Restrictions Lead Brooklyn Couple To Consider Divorce .  The basics of the case are simple, a couple making more than 62,000 does not qualify for the subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act.  With the rising cost of insurance these subsidies are truly the only way health care becomes affordable.  The logical solution is don’t get married or in some cases get divorced, it saves you the victim of bad governance more money and puts you on the Government dole.

CBS points out that Congressional Critics refer to this marriage problem as the “marriage penalty” and then half heatedly states that the income levels for the subsidies were set up by Congress.  What CBS doesn’t tell you is that the law was not a bipartisan law at all.  When it was pushed through Congress only one party voted for it and that is in both houses.

On December 23, the Senate voted 60–39 to end debate on the bill: a cloture vote to end the filibuster by opponents. The bill then passed by a vote of 60–39 on December 24, 2009, with all Democrats and two independents voting for, and all Republicans voting against (except for Jim Bunning, who did not vote).–Wikipedia

The House passed the Senate bill with a 219-212 vote on March, 21, 2010, with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it.-Wikipedia 

When the Government shut down only one party was requesting to defund the law. Since the law was pushed through without a single vote from one party it has been challenged repeatedly.  Only one party defends the law, it is the same party that wrote it.  The rates are not going down by the way, they are only lower than the Congressional Budget Office expected the rates to rise.  They are in fact far higher now than they were just last year with increases that usurped those of the previous 8 years total.