Perhaps you failed to read this part:

This is certain for state returns and I think likely to be the case for federal takes after SCOTUS rules on the Windsor DOMA3 case.

I am well aware – and have noted numerous times – that gay couples pay what I call the Gay Tax, when spousal benefits are taxed for gay but not straight spouses.

And I don’t know what state you live in, but if its by chance my state of California, due to common property laws, usually (some exceptions) gay spouses each report half of the couple’s total income. In some cases that can result in net lower taxes than not being married.

But the point is, when the Windsor case is heard I think we have a very high likelihood of winning. And as her case is specifically about taxes and the unfair disparate treatment between gay and straight couples, then those points you iterated will be gone.

And as the decision will be made prior to the extended filing deadlines, it may very well be to the benefit of gay couples to have married in 2012.

Yes, for tax reasons.

I am married and I did have my taxes go up due to having to pay for the “benefit” of having some coverage for my medical on my husbands insurance.

You are 100 percent WRONG on the tax issue of Gay married people, and I know this from 4 years of having been married. Taxes do go up for any person getting any benefit from their spouse. And it hardly matters that there are very few circumstances in which the burden would be increased, when the main one (insurance) affects the majority of same sex couples.

Please, if you think you actually have factual information, rather than just your assertions, please provide them. The majority of LGBT Organizations have in fact stated that taxes burdens are higher on LGBT couples as compared to Heterosexual couples, even after marriage rights are granted…

In Maryland there is NO benefit at all in regards to taxes, they won’t allow LGBT couples to file as married unless the legislature passes even more laws.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/franchot-says-gay-married-couples-will-get-file-jo/

And, as my husband makes considerably more than me, we pay higher Federal taxes because he files single for Federal and gets no tax credits for my medical costs, as other married couples would. And my medical costs were considerable so we don’t get any of that back. MANY gay people are in marriages with people with long term medical concerns yet they get no tax relief on it, another example of those “few circumstances” where the burden increases.

Of course, I’m expecting your response to be “Welltheir tax burden didn’t go up in comparrison to when they were single”, and to not address the issue that the rates are higher for LGBT married couples IN COMPARRISON to straight married couples. In direct comparrison to our hetero counterparts, our tax burden does in fact increase for MANY.

There are very few circumstances in which two people would increase their tax burden by marrying.