Marriage-penalty relief shifted burden onto unmarried earners.

Evidence

The reduction in the marriage penalty came with another price: an increase in the singles’ penalty. Under the new system, an unmarried earner like Dr. Huf paid more, a middle-income married couple like James and Dottie paid the same as they would individually, and a married single wage earner like Henry Seaborn got a larger tax break. High-earning, dual-income married couples were hit the hardest of all. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 128

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Income-splitting marriage bonuses favor single-wage-earner couples and penalize dual earners — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 136; Marriage tax brackets reward single-earner households and penalize dual earners. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 121; Joint-return math forces marriage-penalty cuts to reward single-earner households — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 130 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Income-splitting marriage bonuses favor single-wage-earner couples and penalize dual earners — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 136; Marriage tax brackets reward single-earner households and penalize dual earners. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 121; Joint-return math forces marriage-penalty cuts to reward single-earner households — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 130 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Marriage-penalty relief excluded the working poor who needed it most #complicates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 127