Tag: gay reparations
Elizabeth Warren wants to give gay couples $57 million in tax refunds
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a plan to pay same-sex couples back for years of discriminatory taxation.
Warren, who is running in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, re-introduced the Refund Equality Act in the Senate. The bill would allow same-sex couples to file joint amended tax returns to collect refunds from when they were married but before the federal government recognized those marriages.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to recognize marriage equality. But until the 2013 U.S. v. Windsor...
