Marriage in America is going out of style—unless you’re rich
“By 2014 the share of the US adult population that was married had dropped to 50%, from 69% in 1970. In the same time period, the share of tax receipts that came from married filers dropped too, but by much less. In 2014, payments from married people accounted for 74% of total US income tax receipts, just 6 percentage points lower than in 1970. Married people accounted for much less of the population, but were still putting the majority of funds into the national tax pot.”