The Marriage Gap
May. 1st, 2026 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenVeronique de Rugy has a good article on marriage and its effects, making several points. Briefly, children growing up with two parents who are married to each other are likely to have much better outcomes than children with one parent, or two adults in an unstable situationship. This is a major source of inequality, since people of the upper middle class typically get married, while a larger percentage of the lower classes don’t.
My readers will not be astonished that I saw a Georgist angle: Ms de Rugy criticizes the tax code, which often makes it more expensive for two people to be married to each other than to shack up informally. It occurs to me that if we taxed land values rather than income, these perverse incentives would not arise.
And now to work.
My readers will not be astonished that I saw a Georgist angle: Ms de Rugy criticizes the tax code, which often makes it more expensive for two people to be married to each other than to shack up informally. It occurs to me that if we taxed land values rather than income, these perverse incentives would not arise.
And now to work.
