Friday, July 21, 2006

How Gay Marriage helps the economy


Aside from being the right thing to do, allowing gay marriage also helps the economy. In MA, where the gays can marry, they can also separate (as the founding couple just announced), and get divorced. Think of all the extra legal, accounting, therapy, and other bills having a whole new class of folks who can divorce will generate. We all know that marriage is bad for the economy, instead of owning two houses, with two refrigerators, two big sreen tv's, etc, married coupes share one house, one refirgerator, one big screen tv, etc. All this sharing shrinks consumption, which shrinks revenue, which shrinks profits, which shrinks salaries and even jobs, all bad for the economy. In fact the only good thing, economically, about marriage is the divorce, which brings a flurry of spending (got to buy and furnish that new bachelor pad), and all the fees that surround the process. Now that the gays can get divorced think of the boom (we all know that a gay man spends more on his house than a striaght one) that is surely coming. Since they've already been living together the damage of sharing is already priced into the system, now it's all upside! Hooray the gay's, and their future divorces! Bye, bye, turns into buy, buy, which means buy, buy stocks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

actually, marriage is good for the economy. First of all, the cost of the marriage helps the economy with the average marriage costing over $20,000. And when two people are married they spend more. They are economically more well off since they can produce more commodities due to specialization. It's a proven fact that marriage helps the economy, which is why the government encourages it. Granted, divorce makes people spend a lot of money, but it only helps the economy on a very short range. When people get divorced, the two people involved experience and income drop average of around 28-42%. So in the long run, divorce cripples the economy a whole lot. almost 50% of houses with children undergoing a divorce re move into poverty after the divorce. Your explanation of how marriage is bad for the economy shows a very shallow understanding of economics.