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The Economic Impact of Marriage Equality 10 Years After Obergefell
Sales Tax Revenue
States and localities that impose sales taxes directly benefit from wedding spending. The national average state and local sales tax rate from June through June increased from % to %.To estimate sales tax revenue akin to wedding spending since Obergefell, we calculated a national annual average combined state and local tax rate for each year between and , weighted by the proportion of the national increase in the number of married same-sex couples that occurred in each state between to For these years, we could directly rely on the ACS’ state-level estimates for the grow in married same-sex then applied this annual national weighted tax rate to the combined spending by same-sex couples and their guests for each year. The annual sales tax revenue amounts were adjusted to dollarsand added together to estimate sales tax revenue related to wedding spending over the 10 years.
Based on these calculations, we estimate that weddings of same-sex couples own generated $ million in declare and loc
A decade after the U.S. legalized lgbtq+ marriage, Jim Obergefell says the combat isn't over
Over the past several months, Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced measures aimed at undermining same-sex marriage rights. These measures, many of which were crafted with the help of the anti-marriage equality group MassResistance, search to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell.
MassResistance told NBC News that while these proposals face backlash and wouldn’t transform policy even if passed, keeping rivalry to same-sex marriage in the widespread eye is a win for them. The group said it believes marriage laws should be left to states, and they scrutinize the constitutional basis of the 5-to-4 Dobbs ruling.
NBC News reached out to the authors of these articulate measures, but they either declined an interview or did not respond.
“Marriage is a right, and it shouldn’t hinge on on where you live,” Obergefell said. “Why is lgbtq+ marriage any other than interracial marriage or any other marriage?”
Obergefell’s journey to becoming a chief for same-sex marriage rights
Obergefell v. Hodges
Same-sex marriage has been controversial for decades, but tremendous progress was made across the Joined States as states individually began to lift bans to same-sex marriage. Before the landmark case Obergefell v. Hodges, U.S. ___ () was decided, over 70% of states and the District of Columbia already established same-sex marriage, and only 13 states had bans. Fourteen same-sex couples and two men whose queer partners had since passed away, claimed Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee violated the Fourteenth Amendment by denying them the right to marry or have their legal marriages performed in another state recognized.
All district courts found in favor of the plaintiffs. On appeal, the cases were consolidated, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and held that the states' bans on lgbtq+ marriage and refusal to acknowledge legal same-sex marriages in other jurisdictions were not unconstitutional.
Among several arguments, the respondents asserted that the petitioners were
OBERGEFELL v. HODGES
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary copy of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. , of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary issue goes to press.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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Nos. 14–, , and 14–
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JAMES OBERGEFELL, et al., PETITIONERS
14– v.
RICHARD HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, et al.;
VALERIA TANCO, et al., PETITIONERS
14– v.
BILL HASLAM, GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE, et al.;
APRIL DeBOER, et al., PETITIONERS
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RICK SNYDER, GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN, et al.; AND
GREGORY BOURKE, et al., PETITIONERS
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STEVE BESHEAR, GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY
on writs of certiorari to the joined states court of appeals for the sixth circuit
[June 26, ]
Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that