One of the assignments we have to do is a series of 13 worksheets based on a series of Excel spreadsheets. One of the spreadsheets is set up to simulate a paycheck, using variables such as marital status, withholding allowances, state and local tax rates, payroll period, gross pay, and voluntary deductions.
The questions that pissed me off are thus:
8.) Consider a single person, claiming one federal withholding allowance, with a biweekly salary of $8650 who has no deductions other than federal withholding tax, FICA, Medicare, state withholding tax (5%), and local withholding tax (2%). Would this person’s net pay increase more if they receive a 5% raise or if they got married? Don’t forge to increase the number of withholding allowances to 2 if they get married.
9.) For the single person described in Question 8 above, what percent increase in their biweekly salary would they have to earn to have their net pay be higher than it would have been had they married?
Obviously, the answer to 8 is “Get married.” I put in “Married. Of course.” Yeah, a little bitter.
The answer to 9? NINE PERCENT. In order to get the same amount of money that someone would get if they got married, you would have to get a 9% raise. There’s not a single company outside of an oil company or an insurance company that gives more than a 4% raise, and most of them haven’t given raises in two years as it is!
Do you see those numbers? NINE FUCKING PERCENT. Now tell me that fags and dykes shouldn’t be able to get married. Fuck you.