Lmao Rod Dreher is SHOOKpic.twitter.com/mAdMoID3n3
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It wasn't intentional when they made up the rule but it basically directly incentivizes "traditional" breadwinner/homemaker marriages and discourages marriage between two high earners, it's a major source of pressure in the upper middle class for the wife to become a homemaker
It's also usually a major net financial savings for two people to be on one health insurance policy rather than two, especially a group market policy without individual underwriting (ie an employer plan)
And there's the stuff everyone brings up that seems minor until it happens to you, like automatically being each other's heir if you die and automatically having power of attorney if you're in the hospital and so on
wow. okay so does the same logic apply when the pair are each making 40-50K/yr, or is it calibrated with a lower threshold?
Well the percentage of your income you're paying in taxes is much lower at that level so the level of savings isn't that impressive
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