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Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays
GrApHiX42 writes "Starting on Thursday, Google is going to increase the salaries of gay and lesbian employees whose partners receive domestic partner health benefits, largely to compensate them for an extra tax they must pay that heterosexual married couples do not. Google is not the first company to make up for the extra tax. At least a few large employers already do. But benefits experts say Google's move could inspire its Silicon Valley competitors to follow suit, because they compete for the same talent."
are you some kind of moran... =p
Unmarried hetro couples are now discriminated against.
Nothing prevents an unmarried hetero couple from entering a civil partnership with each other (just go to city hall and have a judge do it). The real victims here are the overwhelming majority of slash-doters, that are 30+ years old that are still living with their mom, and that couldn't get laid with a female (or a male) even if their very lives depended on it (unless it's on some virtual MMORPGs).
And unless marriages in MMORPGs become legal, with all the legal fringe benefits of marriage, without the scary prospect of ever having to meet your virtual wife (or gay partner/husband) in real life; I'm afraid most of us will always be discriminated against.
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Damn lazy immigrants! Or who are we talking about?
Doesn't really matter which way round it is taken, it still costs more for domestic partners than married partners. You can call that extra tax.
Anyway, that's beside the point. Fact is it costs more, and that is discriminating against both homosexuals and people who just don't believe in marriage.
So Google piling on another layer of discrimination, this time against the non-gays, is supposed to 'fix' the problem?