Almost all married couples file joint returns.

Evidence

Nearly 95 percent of all married couples file jointly, and those who don’t typically choose to file separately to avoid liability for a spouse’s potential tax problems. (A well-known example is the late senator John McCain, and his wife, Cindy, who inherited ownership of the third-largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the country. Before they got married, they signed a prenuptial agreement that included a requirement that they would file separate tax returns.) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 81

Categorization

• CANDY: The McCain-Cindy detail is a nice light marital-filing trivia tidbit for casual conversation.
• XREF: connects to: Individual filing for married couples is the global OECD norm — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 158
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Individual filing for married couples is the global OECD norm — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 158