Reply #48: Nobody said you can't apply. Just don't expect any because the floor is

[Raineyb]

low and the hurdles put in place so onerous that it's designed to turn people away. And you certainly are not going to get medicaid as a single person unless you've been struck with a catastrophic illness.

As to homes, are you kidding me? Nobody HAS to buy a 3 or 4 bedroom house. No-damn-body. And you would not pay the more than a single making the same money the tax tables are completely different for single people and their tax rates start going up at a lower level. So to say that you're paying more as a married person in taxes than a single person is false. The tax tables don't support your assertion.

And I noticed you deliberately changed my scenario from a single person vs a married person with the same number of children to one where you're discussing a family of four vs a single person and that was NOT the discussion at hand. The point was the amount of taxes people pay based on their marital status. The children are superfluous to the argument. Many single people have children as well and while their tax rates don't change at the same rate as a single person's going by the tax table they'd still be paying more than the married couple making the same income.