PFLAG: Congressional Budget Office Affirms Marriage Equality Good for Economy
U.S. Newswire, June, 2004
"This report is one more indicator that marriage equality is not only good family policy, but is also good fiscal policy," said Ron Schlittler, interim executive director of PFLAG. "This timely report should put to rest the alarmist and irresponsible claims by members of Congress and the White House that extending marriage equality to same sex couples would result in a net cost to the government (as reported in the Washington Times, May 18, 2004; "Same-sex 'marriage' likely to prove costly")."
The CBO report states that the federal government will benefit from the legal marriage of gay and lesbian couples. However, as PFLAG has been monitoring this question of fiscal impact for some time, the organization suspects the positive fiscal impact would be stronger, both at the...
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