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Polygamy

manny said:
Well, sort of. Should Social Security pay survivors benefits to more than one spouse?
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Sure. The same amount that would have gone to a sole spouse...split between all the spouses. Three spouses, each gets 1/3rd of the total. Twenty spouses, each gets 1/20th.

The real headache would be when filing taxes, who can file jointly?
 
Jeez...then you'd have to restructure the personal tax system as well, with all the variables of joint vs. separate, and keeping track of who dies which. My head hurts just thinking about it. Good thing I'm too poor to pay much anyway.
 
Some points,
  1. Polygamy is not sanctioned by the LDS church.
  2. Polygamy is an excommunicative offense.
  3. Most Mormons take a dim view of polygamy.
  4. These groups are offshoots of the Mormon church.
  5. However the Mormon church was originally responsible for much of the mess.
  6. Polygamist communities in UT, AZ, ID, NM, etc are often led by an older patriarch who decides who and when girls can marry and to whom.
  7. Girls as young as 13 are often given to much older men against their will.
  8. Young men are often kicked out of the community, harmed and even killed because young girls typically would prefer to marry young men.
  9. I'm the descendant of a Mormon polygamist (not sure why this is relevant).
  10. I don't give a sh** how many wives a man has or how many husbands a woman has or how many husbands a man has or how many wives a woman has or any combination thereof so long as all parties are consenting and aware of all of the other spouces and no fraud is involved.
  11. A man who brings lots of children into the world and can't take care of them should be locked up.
  12. Anyone who forces a young girl into a marriage against her will should be locked up.
  13. It's very difficult to prosecute these pathetic and twisted turds because of religious beliefs and codes of silence.
 
I have no problem with polygamy so long as:

- it isn't a way to circumvent inheritance tax
- it isn't a way to defraud the healthcare or social security systems
- it isn't abusive

Trouble is that much of the above would fit into the "wisdom of Solomon" category because...

- the adminsitrative overheads in the first two woudl be immense
- abuse may be transitory (as a "new model" is brought in)
 
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