If there's areas of our tax law that actually gives you greater benefit not being married than married, those things need to be fixed. And there are several of those. The Brookings Institute for years has asked the most basic question. How does someone rise out of poverty? ... If you graduate high school, if you have a job of any type, and if you wait till after marriage to have children, if those three things are true, 97% chance you rise out of poverty. are true, 97% chance you rise out of poverty. That is someone making good decisions, and it allows the next generation to also be successful as well. That's just good tax policy. (04:51–05:23)
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