Yes, We are Getting Ripped Off

This is something I think all gay people have known for a long time - even if they don't recognize it with the same clarity that this article presents, but yes, we are getting ripped off by the government and many other entities around us by not being able to get married.

Salt receives health insurance through her work, but not dental, so she's on my dental plan. Every year, we get a letter from the university stating that, because we are not in a federally recognized union, they are adding the dollar value of that dental coverage to my total income and reporting it to the IRS.

Discounting that, we paid $12 more in taxes for 2008 because we are not in a federally recognized union.

If we actually made more than pennies in our respective positions, we would have lost much more.

So I guess in this case it's good that we're poor.